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The company that made the first home microwave oven was Tappan.  The microwave oven is called this because it creates little radio waves or waves of radiation.  The strength is far less than that of gamma radiation yet more than the radiation produced by a light bulb.  Food absorbs the microwaves and heats up due to heat being radiation.  The food comes out with more heat than before, yet the plate or bowl isn't.  You should stand a certain distance from the microwave oven when it is cooking to prevent radiation of the human body.  If you put a metal item into the microwave oven, like a fork or knife, the microwave oven will break and start leaking radiation and you would have to replace it.  If a microwave oven breaks it would be a bad idea to use it at all, because microwaves are dangerous.