Established in 1885, Cooper-Atkins has built a solid reputation as a leading manufacturer and provider of quality time, temperature and humidity instruments. The inventor of the first bimetal oven thermometer, David G. Cooper, founded The Cooper Oven Thermometer Company in 1885. Today, the company is known as Cooper-Atkins Corporation after acquiring Atkins Technical, a leader in thermocouple instrument technology. Cooper-Atkins continues to be a global leader in innovative food safety with traditional thermometers, thermocouples, probes, timers, and infrared thermometers.