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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. The common names of the incubator in other terms include breeding / hatching machines or hatchers , setters , and egg breeding / equipment .
Ray Miller Petersime (April 6, 1899 – July 24, 1966) 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 sponsorship for more than a thousand European displaced persons, permitting their resettlement in the U.S.
During the initial phase of the Troubles (1969-1972), the Provisional IRA was poorly equipped and primarily used weapons from World War II.Beginning in the 1970s, the Provisional IRA began importing modern weapons from the United States, Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, and arms dealers in mainland Europe, the Middle East, and elsewhere.
In 1922 Ira Petersime, a local businessman and entrepreneur, invented the electric poultry incubator. [11] In short time Petersime and his son, Ray, built a manufacturing plant in Gettysburg and began shipping their incubators and other hatchery equipment all over the country and abroad. [12] Their business grew to be one of the largest ...
Incubator (culture), a device used to grow and maintain microbiological cultures or cell cultures; Incubator (egg), a device for maintaining the eggs of birds or reptiles to allow them to hatch; Incubator (neonatal), a device used to care for premature babies in a neonatal intensive-care unit
Incubators are essential for much experimental work in cell biology, microbiology and molecular biology and are used to culture both bacterial and eukaryotic cells. An incubator is made up of a chamber with a regulated temperature. Some incubators also regulate humidity, gas composition, or ventilation within that chamber.
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In the 1910s it was reported that Egyptian poultry farmers used these incubators to produce over 90,000,000 chickens per year. [ 14 ] In 2009 the Food and Agriculture Organization published a survey of the traditional hatcheries in three of the Governorates of Egypt , in an attempt to assess risks of Avian influenza in the country.