Builders DIY: Home Security - Adding Barbed Wire to your Fence

K - Series | Constantine Wire -Standard Resistor and Ammeter (Physics) | by Samuel D. Koidia

Philippe Petit: The Man on the Wire

On 15 August 1961, 19-year-old East German border guard Hans Konrad Schumann was sent to the corner of Ruppiner Strasse and Bernauer Strasse to guard the Berlin Wall on its third day of construction. At that time and place, the wall was only a single coil of concertina wire. Throughout the day, as Schumann paced ten steps up and down, West Berlin residents shouted catcalls: “You pigs!” “You traitors!” “You concentration camp guards!” One scene particularly upset Schumann. A young lady in East Be