{"id":15,"date":"2005-12-11T20:46:25","date_gmt":"2005-12-12T01:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2007-05-31T16:01:52","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T22:01:52","slug":"thomas-edison-and-the-worlds-tallest-water-sphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Thomas A. Edison and the World&#8217;s Tallest Water Sphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/200512edison.jpg\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\" \/>Is Thomas A. Edison connected to the World&#8217;s Tallest Water Sphere? Well, as far as I can tell, not directly. However, he did help design some concrete houses that were built by Charles Ingersoll in 1917. These historic houses are well cared-for and sitting nearly at the base of the World&#8217;s Tallest Water Sphere on Ingersoll Terrrace in Union. <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=Union,+New+Jersey&amp;spn=0.052982,0.097195&amp;hl=en\">See for yourself<\/a>. (Zoom in until Ingersoll Terrace is visible next to Route 22 and the Garden State Parkway.)<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the PBS show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/opb\/historydetectives\/investigations\/201_edison.html\">History Detectives<\/a> there is very interesting information on these houses and a very nice (brief) high definition view of the World&#8217;s Tallest Water Sphere in it&#8217;s nearly white paint circa 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Thomas A. Edison connected to the World&#8217;s Tallest Water Sphere? Well, as far as I can tell, not directly. However, he did help design some concrete houses that were built by Charles Ingersoll in 1917. These historic houses are well cared-for and sitting nearly at the base of the World&#8217;s Tallest Water Sphere on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}