Since the NHL video uploaded cut out the best part of the shoot out – Henrik Tallinder – here’s the whole thing.
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Famous Inventions That Have Shaped our History and Impacted our Lives
Barbed Wire
Barbed wire, a simple tool, reshaped Life in the American West by allowing ranchers to tame the land. The new fencing simplified the work of the rancher and farmer, and significantly affected political, social, and economic practices throughout the west.
Before the famous invention of barbed wire, the lack of effective fencing limited the range of farming the number of settlers in an area. With little or no wood and no rocks there wasn’t any way to fence off your land.
Wire fences used before the invention of the barb consisted of only one strand of wire, which was often broken by the weight of cattle pushing against it. Michael Kelly made a significant improvement to wire fencing with an invention that “twisted two wires together to form a cable for barbs – the first of its kind. Kelly’s double-strand design made the fence stronger, and the painful barbs taught cattle to keep their distance.

