Editing Barbed wire (section)

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* [http://www.barbwiremuseum.com/ Website of the Devils Rope Museum] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110222213047/http://barbwiremuseum.com/ |date=February 22, 2011 }} in McLean, Texas
* [http://www.rushcounty.org/BarbedWireMuseum/ The Kansas Barbed Wire Museum] in La Crosse, Kansas is the only museum in the world dedicated solely to barbed wire and the history of fencing.{{cite web|url=http://www.barbwiremuseum.com/barbedwirehistory.htm |title=History of the invention of barbed wire |access-date=2010-07-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100721013911/http://www.barbwiremuseum.com/barbedwirehistory.htm |archive-date=2010-07-21 }}
* Krell, Alan: [https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/barbed_wire/ Barbed Wire], in: [https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/home.html/ 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War].  
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20180328164544/https://www.good-fences.com/wire-fence-%d0%b0nd-th%d0%b5-d%d1%96ff%d0%b5rent-styles-%d1%82hey-come-in/ Wire Fence and the Dіffеrent Styles They Come In]
* [https://archive.today/20121215181453/http://xroads.virginia.edu/~class/am485_98/cook/develp.htm Development and Rise of Barbed Wire] at [[University of Virginia]] accessed March 29, 2006
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20010217020349/http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG99/cook/barb1.htm Barbed Wire Fencing - Its Rise and Influence] also at UVA, from ''Agricultural History'', Volume 13, October 1939, accessed September 20, 2006
* [https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/barbed-wire/index.html Glidden's patent for barbed wire] accessed March 29, 2006
* [http://www.antiquebarbedwiresociety.com/ Antique Barbed Wire Society] accessed September 21, 2006
* [https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/aob01 Barbed Wire in Texas]
* [https://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/barbed_wire_patent/barbed_wire_patent.html Barbed wire changes life on the American Great Plains]
* [https://archive.today/20121205231540/http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blbarbed_wire.htm The History of Barbed Wire] [[About.com]]
* [http://www.wildlifefriendlyfencing.com/ The Wildlife Friendly Fencing project]
* [http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ttusw/00116/tsw-00116.html Papers, 1878-1938, of Texas rancher and co-inventor Isaac L. Ellwood in Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University]
* {{cite web|url=http://austin.about.com/cs/history/a/barbed_wire_3.htm |title=Patent history |access-date=2006-09-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207234635/http://austin.about.com/cs/history/a/barbed_wire_3.htm |archive-date=2008-12-07 }} accessed September 21, 2006
* {{US patent|66182}} – Lucien Smith, [[Kent, Ohio]], ''Wire fence'' – "rotary spools with projecting spurs" (June 1867)
* {{US patent|67117}} – William Hunt, [[Scott, New York]], ''Improvement in Fences'' – "sharpened spur wheels" (July 1867)
* {{US patent|74379}} – Michael Kelly, [[New York City]] (!), ''Improvement in Fences'' – "thorny fence" (1868)
* {{US patent|116755}} – Joshua Rappleye, [[Seneca County, New York]], ''Improvement in Constructing Wire fence'' – tensioner for fence with palings (pickets) (1871)
* {{US patent|138763}} – Henry Rose, [[DeKalb County, Illinois]], ''Improvement in Wire-fences'' – "strips provided with metal points" (1873)
* {{US patent|147756}} – Isaac Ellwood, [[DeKalb, Illinois]] ''Improvement in Barbed Fences'' – "single piece of metal with four points, attached to a flat rail" (February, 1874)
* {{US patent|157124}} – Joseph Glidden, DeKalb, Illinois, ''Improvement in Wire-fences'' – twisted fence wires with short spur coiled around one of the strands (November, 1874) This became the most popular patent.
* {{US patent|167240}} – Jacob Haish, DeKalb, Illinois, ''Improvement in Wire-fence Barbs'' – "single piece of wire bent into the form of the letter S" so that both strands are clasped (1875)
* {{US patent|185346}} – John Nelson, [[Creston, Illinois]], ''Improvement in Wire-fence Barbs'' – barb installable on existing fence wire, (1876)

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