Édouard Michelin

Édouard Michelin ( born June 23, 1859 in Clermont- Ferrand, † August 25 1940 in Orcines in Puy -de- Dôme) was a French industrialist. He invented a pneumatic tire and is together with his brother André Michelin the founder of the company Michelin. Even before 1888 John Boyd Dunlop invented the first pneumatic tires.

Édouard Michelin first studied law, it is a study painting at the Ecole des Beaux -Arts in Paris followed. Paris Montparnasse district Michelin opened then a studio. Together with his brother he inherited in 1888 a rubber factory in Clermont- Ferrand, who had founded their grandfather. The brothers returned this year back to their home city, and led away the business. Édouard developed in 1891 the pneumatic tire for bicycles, a replaceable rubber tires with air tube, whose concept he adapted in 1894 for car tires. Édouard Michelin is also the inventor of Bibendum, the famous Michelin man.

The success of the invention was enormous, the small companies rose in just three years, the market leader in business with bicycle tires on. By 1895, the Michelin also developed a pneumatic tire for cars, in 1896 drove about 300 Parisian taxis with Michelin tires.

After the death of the brothers the company, which at the time of Edouard's death 1940 25.000 employees employed initially continued by younger family members and converted at the beginning of the 1950s into a holding company was.

• Entrepreneurs (France)
• Entrepreneurs (19th Century )
• Engineer, inventor, engineer
• Born in 1859
• Died in 1940
• Man