Posted on Nov 24, 2016
No Ordinary Wire: The Joseph Glidden Story
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November 24, 1874 Patent #157,124 was granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire fencing.
Life in the American West was reshaped by a series of patents for a simple tool - barbed wire - that helped ranchers tame the land. Patents for improvements to wire fencing were granted by the U.S. Patent Office, beginning with Michael Kelly in November 1868 and ending with Joseph Glidden in November 1874, that shape the history of this tool.
http://inventors.about.com/od/bstartinventions/a/BarbedWire.htm
https://youtu.be/pf_URWGR7GU
Life in the American West was reshaped by a series of patents for a simple tool - barbed wire - that helped ranchers tame the land. Patents for improvements to wire fencing were granted by the U.S. Patent Office, beginning with Michael Kelly in November 1868 and ending with Joseph Glidden in November 1874, that shape the history of this tool.
http://inventors.about.com/od/bstartinventions/a/BarbedWire.htm
https://youtu.be/pf_URWGR7GU
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SGT John " Mac " McConnell, very good video my friend. I've had my own experience with barbed wire and not in a good way. I climbed a fence with this stuff on it when I was 6 or 7 one day and made it over just fine. The next day I wanted to impress my brothers but my wrist got snagged on the wire...ripped it all the way down to the bone too. 18 stitches to close it back up.
I wasn't smart that day and a valuable lesson learned!
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I wasn't smart that day and a valuable lesson learned!
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs COL Lee Flemming LTC Stephen F. LTC (Join to see) Maj Marty Hogan SMSgt Minister Gerald A. "Doc" Thomas SGT Robert George SFC William Farrell SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL ] PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SP5 Mark Kuzinski SGT (Join to see) SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth SrA Christopher Wright SGT John " Mac " McConnell SPC Margaret Higgins TSgt Steve Waide SSgt (Join to see) SSG Derrick L. Lewis MBA, C-HRM 1stSgt Chris Schmidt
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
My Nemesis is WWII Leftovers. Walked thru the Most Beautiful field of Wild Cotton and High Tundra Grass once in Adak, AK to check out the sign on the other side of the field that I could just see the back of, The Sign Said "Danger Mine Field Keep Out" Yep I walked thru a WWII Minefield. Another time walking thru the High Tundra Grass my Foot got stuck, Parted the Grass to see a Spike shooting thru the Top of my Hiking Boot. Quickly took off the boot to admire that the Spike entered from the Side and exited thru the top (Good Thing I have a High Arch/Instep). Walks along the Beach Sinclair Inlet at Navy Housing Jackson Park Bremerton,WA admiring the Navy Flares sticking out from the Back (It was an Ammo Dump in WWII and they buried most of the Crap and built Navy Housing on top of it. Or the time the kids came back from Playing asking that we call EOD because there was a Bomb in the Middle of the Softball Field exposed by the Most recent Rain.
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I think this is the state flower in Nebraska. Broken up by poles...but dang there is a lot of it growing wild there. Anyone that has drove across knows what I mean.
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