One of the most common wires, Glidden's Winner, is named for barbed wire's inventor, Joseph Glidden, and the 1874 court case in which he successfully defended his patent. Barbed wire's glory days were ...
On this day in history, November 24, 1874, the first commercially successful barbed wire is patented
Glidden was an American farmer originally from Charlestown, New Hampshire. After growing up in Clarendon, New York, and finishing school, he returned to his father’s farm to work, according to ...
This did not mean that the company was trading with the enemy. Allentown Barb Wire, by then a subsidiary of U.S Steel known as the American Steel and Wire Company, had been around since the 1880s and ...
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