The Boirault No.1, a massive 1917 anti-barbed-wire war machine. Designed to crush enemy defenses and plow through barbed wire, it looked like a mechanical monster straight out of a sci-fi film… but it never saw real success. Why? It was slow, unstable, and difficult to control, and the rapidly evolving tank designs of WWI quickly made it obsolete. #History #WWI #BoiraultMachine #VintageMachinery | VibrantHistory

Joseph F Glidden and the history of barbed wire

This young man is Lennox and he is yet another victim of barbed wire but, before becoming trapped on the wire, poor Lennox suffered serious injuries from burns to his “trousers” and part of one wing. The membrane on the inside of a flying fox’s legs is formally called the uropatagium or interfemoral membrane but we think “trousers” is not only descriptive but very cute. It's impossible to say how Lennox suffered these nasty burns but an electric fence is a possibility. He’s recovering slowly. He

A wrestling match turns into a horrific scene as a wrestler suffers severe injuries from barbed wire inside a steel cage. The intensity quickly escalates to a shocking level of brutality. #Wrestling #SteelCage #BarbedWire #Extreme #Injury | Greatest Wrestlers of the 80s

How to Treat a Wound Caused by a Barbed Wire Fence | DoItYourself.com