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Barbed wire, also known as barb wire, is a type of steel fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strands. Its primary use is the construction of inexpensive fences , and it is also used as a security measure atop walls surrounding property.
Patent drawing for Joseph F. Glidden's Improvement to barbed wire. Glidden began work on ways to make a useful barbed wire to fence cattle in 1873. He made his best design of barbed wire by using a coffee mill to create the barbs. Glidden placed the barbs along a wire and then twisted another wire around it to keep the barbs in place, in a ...
Wire drawing is a metalworking process used to reduce the cross-section of a wire by pulling the wire through one or more dies. There are many applications for wire drawing, including electrical wiring, cables, tension-loaded structural components, springs, paper clips, spokes for wheels, and stringed musical instruments.
French infantry pushing through enemy barbed wire, 1915. While originally invented to restrain cattle in Ohio, barbed wire played a pivotal role in shaping the new ways of fighting that emerged during the First World War. Preventing any kind of unified infantry charge, wire was used as a defense of the now universal trench static system.
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Cover to Star Trek vol. 2 #30 (April 1992) by Gordon Purcell.. Gordon Purcell (born February 14, 1959) [1] is an American comics artist, perhaps best known for his Star Trek work, [2] in particular his realistic renditions of the actors who play that franchise's characters, as well as those of similarly licensed books, such as The X-Files, Xena: Warrior Princess, Lost in Space, Godzilla, The ...
Residents near a Cold War-era nuclear bomb shelter are wondering what the property's new owners are doing on the other side of the chain-link fence topped by barbed wire.
In 1874, Barb Fence Company of DeKalb, Illinois began purchasing wire from Washburn and Moen, to manufacture their patented barbed wire. [2] Washburn was curious as to why they bought so much wire; he travelled to DeKalb and persuaded Joseph Glidden, holder of the patent, to sell his half of the manufacturing business to them. Glidden agreed ...