What is Barbed wire?
[[Image:Barbed wire.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Classic barbed wire]] [[File:2008-08-01 No Tresspassing sign at RDU.jpg|thumb|right|[[Chain-link fencing|Chain link fence]] with barbed wire on top]] '''Barbed wire''' (also called '''barb wire''') is a kind of wire that is used to make cheap [[fence]]s. It has sharp metal points ('''barbs'''),<ref>[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/B/BA016.html BARBED WIRE], [http://web.archive.org/web/20171228195741/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/B/BA016.html Archived], Oklahoma Historical Society</ref> which make climbing over it painful. The first patent in the United States for barbed wire was issued in 1867 to Lucien B. Smith of [[Kent, Ohio]], who is regarded as the inventor.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/timeline/timeline_text.html|title= The American Experience Technology Timeline: 1752 - 1990|access-date=2009-01-28|work= The American Experience|publisher= Public Broadcasting Systems|year= 2000| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090207005119/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/timeline/timeline_text.html| archive-date= 7 February 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=2672|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071003100907/http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=2672|archive-date= 2007-10-03|title= Lucien B. Smith|access-date=2009-01-28|work= Ohio History Central|publisher= Ohio Historical Society|date= 31 July 2006}}</ref> Joseph Glidden of [[DeKalb, Illinois]], received a patent for the modern invention in 1874 after he made his own modifications to previous versions. It was first used for controlling [[cattle]] and later in [[trench warfare]], and in other places to stop people. Improvements led to the creation of Razor wire, in the 1960's. ==References== {{reflist}} {{stub}} [[Category:Security]] [[Category:War]]