As global demand for durable wire products continues to develop across construction, agriculture, infrastructure, fencing, industrial manufacturing, and other sectors, manufacturers are placing ...

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On June 25, 1867, Lucien B. Smith of Ohio received the first patent for barbed wire. Richard Hornbeck explains that within a few decades, the new invention—or, actually, a modified version created and ...

When building a barbed-wire fence, a person needs an easy way to unroll the spools of wire. Many methods have been used, such as putting the wire spool on a stationary bar and then pulling the wire ...

__1867: __Lucien B. Smith patents barbed wire, an artificial "thorn hedge." It's an idea whose time clearly has come, but not quite in this form. Smith's design called for spools of four short, sharp ...