Electric fencing started to appear in the newspapers in the 1930s. Along with safety, animal welfare, barbed wire, and ...

You can see more than 2,000 unique varieties of the vital tool, which corralled livestock and ... designed and patented a type of wire fencing known as barbed wire. In a short time, his invention ...

Chris Dorney / Alamy Stock Photo The 1862 Homestead Act set ... but they were slow-growing and inflexible. Smooth wire fences didn't work either - the cattle simply pushed through them.