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

[Fred Acerri]

Additional info from this site: 
http://www.anchorfencecompany.com/history.htm
Anchor Fence History

  Established in 1891 under the name of Anchor Post Fence Co., Anchor Fence 
was the first company in the USA to manufacture and install chain link fence 
fabric using machines imported from Belgium.

  The first chain link fence was installed at Crocker Wheeler in New Jersey. 
This fence, we believe, stands today with the addition of only a few coats 
of paint to increase its durability.

  Anchor Fence also manufactured and installed wrought iron and one of the 
first installations of this product still stands today at Arlington National 
Cemetery.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Fallin" <fallin.r at comcast.net>
To: <list at project-wombat.org>
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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