The 1887 Glidden Barb-Fence Journal wrote of the idea of using barbed wire to fence out Native people: “The government should by all means adopt for this purpose the Glidden ‘Thick set.’ ...

The best barbed wire is now coated in a mixture that’s 95 percent aluminium and 5 percent zinc. “That’s been used in utility wires, stranded cable, and things like that.

A Google Street View image captured in 2021 shows barbed wire placed atop a construction fence, though it is unclear from images if this installation conforms with the 2.5-metre height restriction.

After all, thanks to Bitcoin, the image even works in two directions. Barbed wire is an often underestimated invention, and few people knew what implications it would hold. In the U.S., the so-called ...

Successfully patented and manufactured in the 1870s (though it was used in various forms earlier than that), barbed wire gave farmers a cheap and available material for building long fences.

The following week, a contractor would put up a four-strand barrier with a barbed top wire 42 inches off the ground—low enough for “jumpers” such as elk, deer, and moose to go over—and a ...

“Barbed wire sends the wrong message.” Royal Roads is on the site of Hatley Castle, a National Historic Site with a long and colourful past, dating to the late 1800s, when it was built by the ...