A device that maintains eggs at a controlled temperature and humidity, with a turning mechanism, to develop the embryo inside and hatch it without a parent bird present. It reproduces artificially the warmth and turning a brooding hen would provide, letting a farm hatch eggs at a scale no number of hens could brood at once. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Introduced Year1922 is Ira M. Petersime electric incubator, the modern farm-scale device; earlier scientific precedents include Reaumur 1747 design and Egyptian oven incubation by circa 400 BC. OriginEgyptians used cylindrical ovens to incubate eggs artificially by around 400 BC. Modern controlled incubation began with Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur, inventor of the alcohol thermometer, whose scientific artificial incubator design was presented in 1747 and published in 1749; the electric incubator was later invented by Ira M. Petersime in 1922. 1 Connections
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the egg incubator artificially hatches eggs, most commonly chicken eggs
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1. Incubator (Egg) (Wikipedia)
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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.
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