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= "Joseph Glidden" =

Joseph F. Glidden of Dekalb, Illinois went to a county fair where he observed a demonstration of a wooden rail with sharp nails sticking out along its sides, hanging inside a smooth wire fence.
==== This inspired him to invent a successful barbed wire in the form we recognize today. Glidden fashioned barbs on an improvised coffee bean grinder, placed them at intervals along a smooth wire, and twisted another wire around the first to hold the barbs in a fixed position. ====