Barbed-wire fence

Title (Dublin Core): Barbed-wire fence
Subject (Dublin Core): en Technology; en Trenches and fortifications
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core): A New Barbed-Wire Fence to Hold the Germans in Check; Caption: This cylindrical barricade can be rolled over but it cannot easily be surmounted
extracted text (Extract Text): The latest barbed-wire fence which the
French have designed to check the
advance of the enemy, employs a series of
immense barrel hoops, on which barbed
wire is strung. The hoops are securely
fastened to a wooden fence-form—

six hoops to a section of fence—so

that it is possible for

each entanglement sec-

tion to roll over and over

i. like a string of lopsided
pushballs joined together

to form a solid unit.

‘When the sections are

to be set up, they are

dragged out under cover

of darkness and so ar-

ranged that the natural

land formations of the

vicinity conceals them

from advancing troops.
Language (Dublin Core): eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core): World War I
Date Issued (Dublin Core): 1918-01
Is Part Of (Dublin Core): Popular Science Monthly, v. 92, n. 1, 1918
pages (Bibliographic Ontology): 59
Rights (Dublin Core): Public Domain (Google digitized)
Source (Dublin Core): Google Books
Archived by (Dublin Core): Filippo Valle; Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core): Western Front of World War I