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DIY a tomato cage with the help of old wire fencing

Your tomato plants need supports, but you don't have to buy them. Find out how to repurpose old wire fencing to create a ...
Gizmodo

Barbed Wire Fences Were An Early DIY Telephone Network

Before Ma Bell came to town, and long before DSL, it was barbed wire, of all things, that brought rural communities together. A Sears telephone hooked up to barbed wire—miles of which were already ...
The Guardian

When was wire invented and when did its use for fencing become general? I remember reading that the invention of barbed wire changed the face of the American West.

ORDINARY wire was invented about 2,000 years ago. In 1873 Joseph Glidden, an American farmer, invented barbed wire similar to that in use today. But some other Americans produced primitive forms ...
St. Cloud Times

Labor, ingenuity go into fencing the land we settled

One day as I was driving from my home near Kraemer Lake, I noticed a small herd of cattle in a pasture fenced with barbed wire. It brought back memories. Wire had been a much-used commodity on our ...