The first commercially successful barbed wire was patented by an American farmer on Nov. 24, 1874. Joseph Farwell Glidden invented the effective product.
After growing up in Clarendon, New York, and finishing school, he returned to his father’s farm to work, according to Britannica.
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, NOV. 18, 1883, NORTH AMERICAN RAILROADS CREATE TIME ZONES, RESHAPE GLOBAL LIFETwo other men also applied for a barbed wire patent with changes of their own: lumberman Jacob Haish and merchant Isaac Leonard Ellwood, according to Encyclopedia online.Patent drawing for Joseph F. Glidden's Improvement to barbed wire, 1874.
Shortly after obtaining the patent, Glidden also developed a machine to help with producing the new and improved barbed wire. The option of wood fencing was always there; however, it was expensive for landowners with hundreds of thousands of acres. Barbed wire, however, was cheaper and easier to install.
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