How Barbed Wire Shaped the West and the World
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The History of Barbed Wire
The first person to propose using wire as a barrier was the French inventor, Leance Eugene Grissanne Baldans in 1860. The key to most inventions is developing a practical solution that could actually be brought to market. There were no fewer than four patents for barbed wire in the United States by 1870.
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