Whirlpool Corp. has delayed layoffs at its Amana, Iowa. facility, originally scheduled for June 1. The delay provides a temporary reprieve for 651 workers amidst Iowa's declining manufacturing jobs.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the home microwave oven. They were first sold for home use by Amana Corporation in 1967, but had been used for commercial food preparation since the 1950s. It ...

Melissa Gregg is studying vintage Amana Radarange microwaves and early nonstick frying pans to help build the Internet of Things. Examining Nixon and Khrushchev's 1959 debate about kitchens, and "how ...