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 ...

Drive down just about any country road and you’ll see it. You may have never thought it would be worthy of a large museum, but then again, you probably never imagined this had such a long and storied ...

It’s ugly, dangerous and destructive. In its time, it was heralded as one of history’s great inventions. In the 1870s, barbed wire fencing was advertised as “The Greatest Discovery of the Age.” Joseph ...

This designer’s work is infinity symbols of barbed wires, spirals of horned tails and witchy typefaces that sprawl across pages like codes from an ancient realm – but it’s his work’s flashy, modern ...

Few inventions that were designed in the 1870s that have not changed since they were patented, and they are still widely used in the 21st century. Barbed wire is an innovation that fits this category, ...

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 ...

When Frank Lorenti of Minturn, a rustic little burg down the road from the villageopolis of Vail in the Colorado mountains, put barbed wire up to keep snowmobilers off his property last winter, the ...

In 1904, the El Paso Herald called for “a barb wire fence along our side of the Rio Grande” to keep out “undesirable aliens.” The newspaper wasn’t referring to Mexicans, but to Chinese immigrants, ...