Show origin of barbed wire the luckiest invention in history said bald a patent office official was that of barbed wire it came about by accident isaac L ellwood was the inventor of barbed wire in his youth he lived in de I 1 alb ill and having a neighbor whose pigs trespassed on his garden he put up ne day a wire fence of t aad fence w had bad barbs and points on it it was qu r and ugly but it kept out the pigs it was nas a real barbed wire fence the first in the tha world and there was millions ot of money in lt it but young ell wa cooj od and his friends laughed at its freak appearance one dav two strangers saw the fe fence ce perceiving how well it kept out the pigs realized how cheap it was realized in a word sword its value and ordered several tons tolls of it from ellwood furthermore they contracted to sell tor for a term of years all the barbed wire he be could produce ellwood borrowed 1000 and set up a little factory A few years later he had paid back this loan oa and was worth a small matter of besides |