History of Microwave Oven

The microwave oven was designed in 1945 by self thought engineer Percy Spencer. P. Spencer was working for United States Navy at Raytheon. Spence was working with magnetron that have produced microwave radiation. The magnetron was used for then new radar technology. while Percy was testing the magnetron, he notice that the candy in his pocket melted from the microwave radiation. He made few experiment with the foods. The microwave was cooking the foods at fast rate. Right after the accidental discover Percy went and patented the new microwave.
In 1947 very large microwave was on the market. It was over five feet in height and weighted over seven hundred fifty pounds. The price was very large too :). Back then you could of bought a new ford for two thousand dollars, but the price of the microwave was unbelievably expensive. The price of the microwave at the market was five thousand dollars. People who have purchased the microwave were not happy with the product because it was so large and did not cook the foods as they wanted it.
By 1950 the new microwave oven was produced by the engineers. In the late 1960s the new microwave ovens were at the market. The new microwaves that were made was specially for the home use, the price was also reduced by four thousand five hundred dollars. The microwaves became more affordable for five hundred dollars.
In our age, there are over two hundred million microwaves all over the country. The microaves are made not only to cook food, but also for drying wood for the construction industry.

History of Dishwasher

In 1850 Joel Houghton had patented the first dishwasher. The dishwasher was made out of wood and had a handle that was splashing water on dishes. In 1965 L. Alexander patented a dishwasher that used hand crank and had gears to spin a rack of dishes through the dishwasher. This dishwasher like the other that was made in 1850 didn't do much to clean the dishes. The dishwashers that was made didn't do much cleaning after all.

The first practical dishwasher that was made by the Cochran in 1886 was bought at the World's Fair by hotels and large restaurants. Only hotels and restaurants believed in Josephina's idea.

In 1950 the dishwasher got the right size and had a proper cleaning for home use. The dishwasher had the proper size for kitchen uses and also got cheaper to be more affordable for public.

History of Refrigerator

Before the refrigerator was made people had trouble with storing their food. People had to dig the basements in their homes, by homes. They had to store their food in the cold dug out basement so the food won't get bad. Some people that lived by the mounts had the snow brought to them. People made the containers that would put the snow in and then store the foods in the containers. For the most part that were people's refrigerator.
The first know refrigerator was demonstrated by William Cullen. He made first artificial refrigerator in 1748, but he did not use the refrigerator for any practical purposes.The first refrigerator was built by Jacob Perkins in 1834 which was designed by Oliver Evens in 1805.
During 1800's the refrigerator's that were built had toxic gases ammonia to cool the closed space. In 1920 few of the accidents happened. The methyl chloride leaked out of the refrigerator. The scientist's efforts took the to discover a freon. In few years the compressors in refrigerators ha a freon. This refrigerators were in almost all homes.

Save Money

You have to be smart before buying new appliance. Especially if you buy an expensive appliance and something breaks you have to pay for it. So before you buy appliance think about the insurance that the company offers. Think about for how many years you are getting the appliance insurance. If your appliance breaks during your insured time, do you have to pay for the certain parts? If something like this happens to your appliance you have to know the ways to get around and save some money on you appliance.
1) When you go to the show room of appliance and you see something really nice with a lot of gadgets, and you get on fire. You fall in love with the thing. Wait and think about what you are really going to use or now. Do you really need to over pay on something that you will never use?
2) When choosing an appliance, start from the cheapest once because you can always work your way up. You can compare low cost appliance with the high appliances. Just work your way up and really think what kind of gadget you really going to use in the appliance that you are buying.
3) Check that yellow tag that will tell you how much energy does the appliance take to operate. This will help you save money on the energy.
4) When you bought your appliance look for cheap handy man so he could install your appliance properly.
5) Shop around. Try to find a good deals on the appliance.
6) Ask questions. For example a) Does the company offer a package deal? b) What would be the deal if you buy more than one appliance machine? c) Do they sell used appliances and what's the price difference? d) Does the company have anything on sale? e) If not, when the sale is going to happen for the appliance that you want? f) If you buy the appliance, is there a gift deal that goes with it? g) Does the company makes trade ins on the appliance? h) What's the manufacturer warranty?