Long summer days are for relaxing, not watering the yard. The Rain Bird In-Ground Automatic Sprinkler System offers the luxury of set-and-forget convenience. Simply program the 6 sprinklers to take ...

An automatic sprinkler system takes a lot of the work out of watering the lawn, but the systems can be expensive. For a small, open yard without a lot of obstacles to complicate the installation ...

Automatic sprinkler systems extinguish or control fires by discharging water locally. Detection is handled mechanically by heat-sensitive thermal elements typically constructed from a glass bulb ...

Place sprinkler on lawn. Turn on water. Fiddle with sprinkler to adjust spray. Get wet. Scurry away. Repeat. That’s a typical way of watering a lawn–and watering the waterer. But it doesn’t have to be ...

Inventors began experimenting with automatic sprinklers around 1860. These systems started out as pipes with holes drilled in them. When a fire occurred, the water was turned on to control the fire.