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Definitions of barbed wire in various dictionaries:
noun - strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage
BARBED WIRE - Furnished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire.
BARBED WIRE - Barbed wire, also known as barb wire, occasionally corrupted as bobbed wire or bob wire, is a type of steel fencing wire constructed with sharp edges...
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Joseph Glidden wasn't the first to make this fencing material, but by 1885, his design was the top seller |
An 8,000-piece collection of this fencing material is featured at Oklahoma's Natl. Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum |
In the 1870s this innovation revolutionized ranching & made John W. Gates a millionaire |
Don't hum "Don't Fence Me In" at the May festival for this fencing material in La Crosse, Kansas |
The Devil's Rope Museum in McLean, Texas is devoted to the history of this material |
In the 1870s, Joseph Glidden received patents for this type of wire used to enclose livestock |
With wood costly, ranchers turned to this new "thorny fence" in the 1870s to keep livestock from roaming |
Native Americans called this fence material the "Devil's rope" |
Pawnee City is home to one of the largest collections of this kind of fencing material |
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Barbed wire, also known as barb wire, occasionally corrupted as bobbed wire or bob wire, is a type of steel fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strands. It is used to construct inexpensive fences and is used atop walls surrounding secured property. It is also a major feature of the fortifications in trench warfare (as a wire obstacle). * A person or animal trying to pass through or over barbed wire will suffer discomfort and possibly injury. Barbed wire fencing requires only fence posts, wire, and fixing devices such as staples. It is simple to construct and quick to erect, even by an unskilled person. * The first patent in the United States for barbed wire was issued in 1867 to Lucien B. Smith of Kent, Ohio, who is regarded as the inventor. Joseph F. Glidden of DeKalb, Illinois, received a patent for the modern invention in 1874 after he made his own modifications to previous versions. * Barbed wire was the first wire technology capable of restraining cattle. Wire fences were cheaper and easier to erect than their alternatives. (One such alternative was Osage orange, a thorny bush which was time-consuming to transplant and grow. The Osage orange later became a supplier of the wood used in making barb wire fence posts.) When wire fences became widely available in the United States in the late 19th century, they made it affordable to fence much larger areas than before. They made intensive animal husbandry practical on a much larger scale. * An example of the costs of fencing with lumber immediately prior to the invention of barbed wire can be found with the first farmers in the Fresno, California area, who spent nearly $4,000 (equivalent to $84,000 in 2018) to have wood for fencing delivered and erected to protect 2,500 acres of wheat crop from free-ranging livestock in 1872. |