[PW] Re: Who invented the chain link fence and in what year?

[Fred Acerri]

Found the following info (with picture) at this site: 
http://www.westernwireprod.com/ourstory.html

Western Wire Products | Our Colorful History
Western Wire Products Company has been a "family business" even before its 
1914 incorporation in St. Louis, Missouri. Its origins date back to 1907 
when the uncle of the company's founders invented a machine that made woven 
wire fabric. The patent on this machine is considered by some historians to 
be the original precursor to today's chain link fence.

Fred A
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Fallin" <fallin.r at comcast.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 5:12 PM
Subject: [PW] Who invented the chain link fence and in what year?


> Have Googled and Netscaped many different queries and not come up with a
> definitive answer, yet lots of places to purchase.
> Searched the Patent Office records and the earliest mention is a man by 
> the
> name of W. J. Davisson who has a patent for a machine that improves the
> making of the metal fabric in 1883.
> Help would be appreciated
> Robert
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