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24th November 1873: Joseph Glidden awarded a patent for modern barbed wire
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:02:49
Publish Date: 2017-11-23 21:05:06
Description: Improved fencing systems were vital to the farmers who had headed west to settle in the Great Plains. The Homestead Act of 1862 allowed honest citizens to claim up to 160 acres if they built a home and worked the land for five years, but the new settlers struggled to erect fences in an area where there were few trees to provide timber. Roaming cattle could push through smooth wire fences and trample crops. Various early versions of barbed wire had been patented before Joseph Glidden, a farmer from DeKalb, Illinois, developed a form of double-stranded wire that could be ...
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