Incubator (egg)
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An incubator is a device simulating avian incubation by keeping eggs warm at a particular temperature range and in the correct humidity with a turning mechanism to hatch them.
A modern egg incubator
Egyptian egg oven
Réaumur's incubator
A 20th-century postcard depicting eggs and a hatchling in an incubator for ostrich farming
Ray M. Petersime
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Ray Miller Petersime was an American businessman and Christian philanthropist and humanitarian who was active in providing material relief to war-torn Europe after World War II and who secured sponsor
Incubator (egg)
…of 1881. Ira M. Petersime of Gettysburg, Ohio, USA is credited with inventing the electric egg incubator in 1922. Shortly thereafter he and his son, Ray, began manufacturing the incubators. They were granted numerous patents on design features and subsequent improvements. The innovation of the electrically…
Ray Petersime in early 1960s
Petersime Chapel on the campus of Manchester University