The first snap-action precision switch was developed by Burgess Laboratories in 1932 for temperature control in a chicken brooder. A Burgess employee purchased the electronics division in 1937 and ...

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Snap switches were created nearly 80 years ago to make chickens happy. The first snap-action precision switch was developed in 1932 for chicken brooder temperature control, the same year Charles F.

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Farmex showed its new wireless brooder alarm for pheasant huts – or other portable/temporary buildings used for the purpose – at the Precision Farming show. This uses a temperature sensor in each hut ...