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Eggs--Incubation

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = TD

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

100-Egg Hot-Water Incubator, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3379
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a 100-egg hot-water incubator by Spratt's Patent Ltd from the early/mid 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

A 6000-Eggs Capacity "Gloucester" Mammoth Incubator, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3401
Scope and Contents

Illustration of a "Gloucester" mammoth incubator that had a capacity for 6000 eggs which was installed at Jack Wrenmall's Poultry Farm, Barton, Preston, Lancashire in 1927. According to the text beneath the image, it did so well that the farmer added a top tier increasing the capacity to 12000 eggs.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Baby Mammoth 900-Egg Incubator, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3367
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a baby mammoth 900-egg incubator in a barn in the early/mid 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

"Buckeye" Mammoth Incubator, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3371
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a man and woman looking at eggs in the "Buckeye" Mammoth incubator in the early/mid 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Incubation in Russia, 1954

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Identifier: Coll-1362/3/102
Scope and Contents

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1953-57.

Dates: 1954

The "Gloucester" Incubator, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3375
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a cross-section of the "Gloucester" incubator showing its special construction of a warm air heater into the egg chamber.

Dates: 1870s-1930s