{"id":228,"date":"2012-09-29T23:15:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T23:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2012\/09\/climbing-tall-stacks-with-the-aid-of-kites.html"},"modified":"2015-10-19T01:32:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T23:32:22","slug":"climbing-tall-stacks-with-the-aid-of-kites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2012\/09\/climbing-tall-stacks-with-the-aid-of-kites.html","title":{"rendered":"Climbing Tall Stacks with the Aid of Kites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/climbing-tall-stacks-with-the-air-of-kites.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2841\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/climbing-tall-stacks-with-the-air-of-kites-500x399.jpg\" alt=\"climbing tall stacks with the air of kites\" width=\"500\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Having occasion to make emergency repairs to the large 170-ft. chimney of the Consumers&#8217; Ice Company, Chicago, and finding that the cost of erecting a scaffold ran up into hundreds of dollars and would take too much time, I decided to use one of my cellular kites for the purpose of hoisting and attaching a suitable block and tackle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=Sd8DAAAAMBAJ&amp;pg=PA1118&amp;dq=climbing+tall+stacks+with+aid+of+kites&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=wiPtTf74Fc3KswakirXoCg&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q=climbing%20tall%20stacks%20with%20aid%20of%20kites&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">Climbing Tall Stacks with the Aid of Kites<\/a>. Popular Mechanics, November 1906<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Having occasion to make emergency repairs to the large 170-ft. chimney of the Consumers&#8217; Ice Company, Chicago, and finding that the cost of erecting a scaffold ran up into hundreds of dollars and would take too much time, I decided to use one of my cellular kites for the purpose of hoisting and attaching a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,315],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2843,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/2843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}