[Curious Droid] is back with a history lesson on one of the most important inventions of the 20th century: The cavity magnetron. Forged in the fighting of World War II, the cavity magnetron was the ...

In 1940, Britain sent the Tizard Mission to North America carrying some of its most valuable military research. The most important item was the cavity magnetron, a compact device capable of producing ...

In 1940, England was in a dangerous predicament. The Nazi war machine had been sweeping across Europe for almost two years, claiming countries in a crescent from Norway to France and cutting off the ...

World War II turned on a black metal box. In September 1940, as German bombs devastated London, Sir Henry Tizard crossed the Atlantic carrying the cavity magnetron — the key to airborne microwave ...

The code-breaker movie The Imitation Game opened in theaters on Dec. 25. It centers on mathematician Alan Turing, the legendary pioneer of computer science and artificial intelligence. Turing’s work ...