John Boyd Dunlop

John Boyd Dunlop ( born February 5, 1840 in Dreghorn, Scotland, † November 23, 1921 in Dublin, Ireland ) was a British veterinarian. His name is the triumph of the pneumatic tire is connected, it had been patented but 40 years ago the re-invention of Dunlop's his Scottish compatriot Robert William Thomson, had to Thomson's lifetime, but not yet enforced for lack of bicycles.

About the re-invention of the pneumatic tire is generally tells the anecdote that 1888 Dunlop was annoyed about the noise of the metal hoops of the tricycle of his son. He wrapped the vehicle of thin rubber sheets glued together hoses to the wheels and pumped the shells with a football pump. On December 7, 1888, he registered the patent for the first bicycle tire and founded a year later, the first tire plant in the later Dunlop Group. The patent he sold some time later to William Harvey You Cros. He himself was his life not rich by his invention.

In the 19th century, many discoveries have been made, which paved the way to the tire:

• In 1839, the discovery of vulcanization, which is generally awarded to the American Charles Goodyear
• In 1845 Robert William Thomson introduced air-filled tires inflated intestines of animals here and let them be patented
• In 1876, the increased rubber production, including through the creation of rubber plantations in Southeast Asia, by Sir Henry Wickham
• Also Édouard Michelin (1859-1940) was in 1889 invented a pneumatic tire.