Barbed Wire - Memorable Days and Facts

Barbed wire - memorable days and facts

The history of barbed wire is no less interesting than the history of other useful human inventions. Today, more than a hundred years after the invention of barbed wire, we can sum up some intermediate results by giving a list of the most significant and turning points in the history of the development of this important product.

  1. The beginning of a long journey began in 1873, when the American farmer Henry Rose created an effective fence for livestock using wire and boards equipped with spikes.
  2. In 1874, the observant Glidden, after major improvements to Rose's invention, introduced barbed wire to the public, which quickly became popular in America and abroad.
  3. In the same 1874, the joint company of Glidden and Ellwood began commercial sales of barbed wire manufactured according to Glidden's patent.
  4. In 1892, the use of barbed wire against people was recorded. An entire town in Idaho was surrounded by barbed wire to keep out striking miners who were ready to kill the company that owned the local mines. All 1,200 people died without being able to get beyond the barbed wire fence.
  5. During the First World War, such important events took place as the invention of razor tape, its reinforcement with wire, and the use of spiral-type defensive barriers (Bruno spiral).
  6. In the United States, in the late seventies, they began to practice rolling barbed wire, which makes it possible to increase the efficiency of reinforced tape significantly.
  7. At the beginning of the third millennium, the Egoza trademark appeared in the CIS, uniting most of the domestic manufacturers under its roof.
  8. The first decade of the third millennium is marked in the history of the development of barbed wire with several striking events - the invention of Y.V. Tkachenko security-patents.com engineering protection system for sea vessels Anti-Pirate and the development of barbed wire made of composite materials.

It is too early to say that barbed wire has reached its structural perfection. The story of its development does not end, continuing to surprise contemporaries with new unexpected turns.