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Few inventions that were designed in the 1870s that have not changed since they were patented, and they are still widely used in the 21st century. Barbed wire is an innovation that fits this category, ...

Watch as a Kubota tractor equipped with a Baumalight MP348 mulching attachment tackles an overgrown property, demonstrating efficient brush and small tree removal. The video covers key highlights, ...

Drive down just about any country road and you’ll see it. You may have never thought it would be worthy of a large museum, but then again, you probably never imagined this had such a long and storied ...

When Frank Lorenti of Minturn, a rustic little burg down the road from the villageopolis of Vail in the Colorado mountains, put barbed wire up to keep snowmobilers off his property last winter, the ...

In the mid 1800s, not many (non-native) Americans had ever been west of the Mississippi. When Frederick Law Olmstead visited the west in the 1850s, he remarked that the plains looked like a sea of ...

American troops without much to do are on the U.S.-Mexico border stringing concertina wire, a type of barbed wire manufactured in coils and often used to create an obstacle in war, to stop a caravan ...

__1867: __Lucien B. Smith patents barbed wire, an artificial "thorn hedge." It's an idea whose time clearly has come, but not quite in this form. Smith's design called for spools of four short, sharp ...

Roman Mars’ podcast 99% Invisible covers design questions large and small, from his fascination with rebar to the history of slot machines to the great Los Angeles Red Car conspiracy. Here at The Eye, ...

The Spalding Hotel in the mid north is capitalising on the tourist trade by showcasing one of the largest collections of barbed wire in Australia. The owners have set up a museum in the hotel ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The United States has been fortifying its southern border against the “caravan” of migrants from Central American nations ...