Ducklings and Goslings do not take heat well, so be sure not to overheat them. They like a temperature of 90-92 degrees for the first 3 days, then 85-90 degrees for days 4 to 7. Thereafter, drop the temperature by approximately 5 degrees per week until they are fully feathered.
In his home based machine shop, McCoy invented an automatic lubricator cup for oiling steam engines. This was his first patent, âImprovement in Lubricators for Steam-Enginesâ granted on July 23, 1872. It is believed this was the origin of the term âthe Real McCoyâ because engineers would ask if it was âthe real McCoy, when buying lubricator cups for trains. Elijah McCoy held some 60 patents by the time of his death in 1929.
He invented an automatic lubricator for oiling the steam engines of locomotives and ships, patenting it in 1872 as Improvement in Lubricators for Steam-Engines (U.S. Patent 129,843). Similar automatic oilers had been patented previously; one is the displacement lubricator, which had already attained widespread use and whose technological descendants continued to be widely used into the 20th century.