Tom Ambrose

6th December, 2017 in Transport & Industry

From discomfort to joy: Dunlop’s pneumatic bicycle tyre

The credit for the pneumatic tyre must go to two men: John Boyd Dunlop, who developed it in Ireland in 1888, and Robert W. Thomson of England who had patented it 43 years earlier in 1845. By a strange coincidence, the two men invented the same thing decades apart, although neithe…