{"id":680,"date":"2026-11-24T00:30:29","date_gmt":"2026-11-24T05:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=680"},"modified":"2025-12-20T22:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T03:05:12","slug":"barbed-wire-was-patented-in-1874","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=680","title":{"rendered":"Barbed Wire Was Patented in 1874"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26794\" style=\"width: 166px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26794\" class=\"wp-image-26794\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Barbed-Wire-204x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"229\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26794\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbed Wire Patent<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Barbed wire was patented in 1874<\/strong> by Joseph Glidden of Dekalb, Illinois. Ranchers quickly found his invention to be invaluable, and Glidden became very rich. Barbed wire really changed ranching in the West. Young historians could find out the advantages and disadvantages of barbed wire. Children could view his patent at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\/US157124?dq=Patent+number+157124&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=K6SMUN2GO8zI0AHi9oDABw&amp;sqi=2&amp;pjf=1&amp;ved=0CC4Q6AE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barbed Wire Patent<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbed wire was patented in 1874 by Joseph Glidden of Dekalb, Illinois. Ranchers quickly found his invention to be invaluable, and Glidden became very rich. Barbed wire really changed ranching in the West. Young historians could find out the advantages and disadvantages of barbed wire. Children could view his patent at: Barbed Wire Patent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5644,4014,4016,19,4015,6042],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5644","tag-barbed-wire","tag-dekalb","tag-illinois","tag-joseph-glidden","tag-november-24","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29888,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/29888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}