Charles Barnard

Chain-link fencing was invented by Charles Barnard, an Englishman who didn't so much invent wire fencing as he did adapt a cloth-weaving machine from Belgium to the purpose of creating chain-link.

I'd thought chain-link was invented by an American, but barbed-wire was invented by an American, not chain-link.

Just as I'd thought Salt Lake City was a repressive, closed-minded city populated by Latter Day Saints and Republicans. And it's not at all, it's populated by progressive transsexuals who espouse radical politics and are proud of their body piercings.

Now that I can see through my misconception, I see I was trapped inside what I thought I knew, and what I thought kept me from seeing what was really there.