Barbed wire was patented 147 years ago today — illustrating man's inhumanity to humans and animals - Frank Beacham's Journal
Military History Society of Rochester - First Practical Barbed Wire November 24, 1874 Joseph Glidden patents his barbed wire. His barbed wire changed ranching and made him one of the wealthiest men
Glidden Homestead on Twitter: "147 years ago this week, on December 8, 1874, Joseph Glidden & DeKalb Phineas Vaughan received a patent for the machinery for manufacturing barbed wire (Patent 157, 508).
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