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# Incubator shaped like a brooding hen in a description from a 1786 book
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/inkubator-xviii-veka-vstretil-v-knige-1786-goda-opisanie-mashiny-dlia-vysizhivaniia-iaits/
- Published: 2025-04-07T11:42:22.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:50:49.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: NB!, Books, Observations, Science, Humour

An eighteenth-century incubator: I came across a description of an egg-hatching machine in a book of 1786\. To lend it a harmonious appearance, the author proposes that it be made in the shape of a broody hen. Yet another confirmation that the technologies of the past were far more advanced than is commonly supposed