Crowd control barrier

<h2 id="history">History</h2>
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<p>Brussels mayor <a href="/facts/Jules_Anspach/q264Jwb6">Jules Anspach</a> has been credited with the invention of the crowd control barrier for the occasion of the visit of the French photographer <a href="/facts/Nadar_(photographer)/6AUVdUV3">Nadar</a> to Brussels. On his visit to <a href="/facts/Brussels/tNzHrQYP">Brussels</a> with the balloon <i>Géant</i>, on September 26, 1864, Anspach erected mobile barriers to keep the crowd at a safe distance.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> Up to this day, crowd control barriers are known in both <a href="/facts/Flemish_dialects/Tjq869yB">Belgian Dutch</a> and <a href="/facts/Belgian_French/FeW35h1F">Belgian French</a> as <i>Nadar barriers</i>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a>
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<p>Interlocking steel barriers were patented in France in 1951.
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/2009_Birmingham_Millennium_Point_stampede/M91q8s05">2009 Birmingham Millennium Point stampede</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Chicane_(barrier)/o2gLC3Ec">Chicane (barrier)</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Crowd_control/rudFoeUw">Crowd control</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Crowd_manipulation/S9tK4TXR">Crowd manipulation</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Privacy_fencing/efJPfQhN">Privacy fencing</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Temporary_fencing/Kgnp43he">Temporary fencing</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Vinyl_fence/SSX69CSd">Vinyl fence</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/29/nyregion/29sawhorses.html">Article about sawhorses used for crowd control</a> (paywall)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.iaam.org/facility_manager/pages/2006_Feb_Mar/Feature_4.htm"><i>Facility Manager</i> article on steel barrier stability in windy conditions</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/1998/09/09/1998-09-09_tale_of_2_men_at_the_barrica.html"><i>New York Daily News</i> article on steel barrier use in New York City</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"Newly designed mills barriers". Press releases (Press release). Hong Kong Government. 23 January 2002. Archived from the original on 2003-01-08. Retrieved 26 November 2014. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030108054130/http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/200201/23/0123257.htm" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20030108054130/http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/200201/23/0123257.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>https://bruges-la-morte.net/wp-content/uploads/Baudelaire_Bruxelles.pdf [bare URL PDF] <a href="https://bruges-la-morte.net/wp-content/uploads/Baudelaire_Bruxelles.pdf" target="_blank">https://bruges-la-morte.net/wp-content/uploads/Baudelaire_Bruxelles.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Nadarafsluiting at www.cornille-mct.be <a href="http://www.cornille-mct.be/fr/nadar.html" target="_blank">http://www.cornille-mct.be/fr/nadar.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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