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Joseph Glidden

Inventor

Citation Formats

General Reference

Agriculture and Farming Atlas. "Joseph Glidden." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/figures/joseph-glidden.

APA Style

Agriculture and Farming Atlas. (n.d.). Joseph Glidden. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/figures/joseph-glidden

BibTeX

@misc{agricultureandfarmingatlas-joseph-glidden,
  author = {Agriculture and Farming Atlas},
  title = {Joseph Glidden},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/figures/joseph-glidden},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

American farmer and inventor from DeKalb, Illinois, credited with patenting the twisted double-strand barbed wire design that became the first commercially successful barbed wire, transforming fencing and ranching across the American Great Plains.

Facts

Birth Year

1813 1

Death Year

1906 1

Nationality

American 1

Defining Contribution

Received a patent for his barbed wire design on 24 November 1874, then formed the Barb Fence Company with hardware dealer Isaac Ellwood in DeKalb, Illinois, before selling his half of the manufacturing business to Washburn and Moen in 1876. 1

Cross-Tradition Connections