No, it wasn’t Spider-Man swinging on a web. But close. Three 20-year-old men allegedly scaled barbed wire fences and scuttled 100 feet up the side of a roller coaster before dawn Saturday to ...

That history is on display in La Crosse, Kan., at the Kansas Barbed Wire Museum. You can see more than 2,000 unique varieties of the vital tool, which corralled livestock and, in many ways ...

Years later, he landed in De Kalb, Illinois, and obtained a farm of his own. After seeing a sample of barbed wire at the De Kalb Count Fair in 1873, Glidden decided to make some improvements of ...

We simply call it barbed wire. 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy highlights the inventions, ideas and innovations that helped create the economic world. It is broadcast on the BBC World Service.