Important Inventions and Discoveries in World » Exercise – 1
3. When was barb wire patented?
(a) 1874
(b) 1840
(c) 1895
(d) 1900
Explanation
Explanation : Joseph F. Glidden was born in New York on Jan. 18, 1812. He invented barbed wire in 1873 and was granted the patent on Nov. 24, 1874. After a three year battle over the patent, which he eventually won, Gidden became known as the “Father of Barbed Wire”.
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