{"id":548,"date":"2011-01-05T17:56:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T17:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.fredib.com\/wordpress3\/?p=548"},"modified":"2023-06-22T19:43:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T23:43:29","slug":"charles-ritchel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/business-and-commerce\/charles-ritchel\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Ritchel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Charles Ritchel c. 1840-1911<\/p>\n<p>Charles Ritchel was an inventor who is credited with inventing the first dirigible.\u00a0 In 1878, Ritchel built a hand-powered dirigible fashioned out of rubber from the Goodyear Rubber Company in Naugatuck and the Folansbee Machine Shop in Bridgeport, Connecticut.\u00a0 He is a Bridgeport inventor who is also thought to have invented roller skates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Charles Ritchel c. 1840-1911 Charles Ritchel was an inventor who is credited with inventing the first dirigible.\u00a0 In 1878, Ritchel built a hand-powered dirigible fashioned out of rubber from the Goodyear Rubber Company in Naugatuck and the Folansbee Machine Shop in Bridgeport, Connecticut.\u00a0 He is a Bridgeport inventor who is also thought to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,33,35],"tags":[86,95,104],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-commerce","category-industry","category-inventors","tag-bridgeport","tag-charles-ritchel","tag-dirgible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15229,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/15229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}