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Summary of video: 0:30 Newspaper article asserts "the microwave was invented to meet a need to heat hamsters humanely in 1950's laboratories" 0:45 Percy Spenc
by derefnull 5y ago
Summary of video:
0:30 Newspaper article asserts "the microwave was invented to meet a
need to heat hamsters humanely in 1950's laboratories"
0:45 Percy Spencer discovered standing nearby a radar station would
heat a peanut bar in his pocket
1:50 Magnetron: what is it?
4:35 Using a magnetron for microwave diathermy
9:40 "Almost every rodent they froze was reanimated"
10:00 Medical applications
11:15 Size of animal constrains use of technique (humans too big)
from the youtube link, references:
PAPERS FROM NIMR:
A Smith, J Lovelock, A Parkes, 1954: Resuscitation of Hamsters after
Supercooling or Partial Crystallization at Body Temperatures Below 0°
C.. Nature 173, 1136–1137. https://doi.org/10.1038/1731136a0 https://doi.org/10.1038/1731136a0
R K Andjus, J E Lovelock, 1955: Reanimation of rats from body temperatures between 0 and 1° C by microwave diathermy. The Journal of
Physiology, 128.
Lovelock, J E, Smith A U, 1959, Heat transfer from and to animals in
experimental hypothermia and freezing. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 80: 487-499.
https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1959.tb49226.x https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1...