{"id":7786,"date":"2011-10-14T10:50:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T15:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=7786"},"modified":"2012-04-16T09:25:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T14:25:31","slug":"archives-month-oct-born-in-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/7786","title":{"rendered":"Archives Month (Oct.): &#8220;Born in Wisconsin&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Would you like to go to class in a building where the temperature cannot be regulated? Professor W. S. Johnson didn\u2019t like teaching in such a building, so in 1883 he invented the thermostat to control the temperature in Whitewater\u2019s Old Main. It became so popular that Johnson started a company to manufacture his invention \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnsoncontrols.com\/publish\/us\/en\/about.html\" title=\"Johnson Controls web site\" target=\"_blank\">Johnson Controls<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/ambiw.jpg\" alt=\"poster image for Wisconsin Archives Month 2011\" class=\"alignright\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisconsinhistory.org\/archivesmonth\/\" title=\"Wisconsin Archives Month 2011\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Wisconsin Archives Month 2011<\/a> celebrates ideas and creators who were &#8220;Born in Wisconsin.&#8221;<\/strong> Other ideas from Wisconsin include the typewriter, the dairy cooperative, Harley-Davidson motorcycles, Evinrude outboard motors, and the first American kindergarten.<\/p>\n<p>Stop by Special Collections on Andersen Library&#8217;s first floor and admire the display in honor of Archives Month. You also can visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/archivesmonth.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Archives Month 2011 blog\" target=\"_blank\">blog of the Society of American Archivists-Student Chapter at UW-Madison<\/a>, which is featuring stories about unique collections from participating archives and historical societies around the state throughout October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you like to go to class in a building where the temperature cannot be regulated? Professor W. S. Johnson didn\u2019t like teaching in such a building, so in 1883 he invented the thermostat to control the temperature in Whitewater\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/7786\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,2768],"tags":[351,175,856,17794],"class_list":["post-7786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-library","category-around-wisconsin","tag-archives","tag-blogs","tag-displays","tag-wisconsin-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7786"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7788,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7786\/revisions\/7788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}