Matzos
07-07-06, 15:36
In 1874 Joseph F. Glidden, a sixty year old farmer from Illinois, USA invented and patented barbed wire.
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Joseph F. Glidden
Glidden fashioned barbs on an improvised coffee bean grinder, placed them at intervals along a smooth wire, and twisted another wire around the first to hold the barbs in a fixed position.
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He established the Barb Fence Company at De Kalb in Illinois. Several other people claimed they had invented similar products and Glidden became involved in a three year legal battle. Glidden was eventually declared the rightful inventor of barbed wire and he went on to become one of the most successful and richest men in the United States.
More information can be found at Antique Barbed Wire Society (http://www.antiquebarbedwiresociety.com/)
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Joseph F. Glidden
Glidden fashioned barbs on an improvised coffee bean grinder, placed them at intervals along a smooth wire, and twisted another wire around the first to hold the barbs in a fixed position.
http://www.militaryimages.net/imagehost/images/Matzos/barbedwire1.jpg
He established the Barb Fence Company at De Kalb in Illinois. Several other people claimed they had invented similar products and Glidden became involved in a three year legal battle. Glidden was eventually declared the rightful inventor of barbed wire and he went on to become one of the most successful and richest men in the United States.
More information can be found at Antique Barbed Wire Society (http://www.antiquebarbedwiresociety.com/)