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  2. Charles Goodyear - Wikipedia

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    Charles Goodyear was born on December 29, 1800, in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Amasa Goodyear, and the oldest of six children.His father was a descendant of Stephen Goodyear, successor to Governor Eaton as the head of the company London Merchants, who founded the colony of New Haven in 1638.

  3. Pericles, Prince of Tyre - Wikipedia

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    The 1609 quarto edition title page. Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a Jacobean play written at least in part by William Shakespeare and included in modern editions of his collected works despite questions over its authorship, as it was not included in the First Folio.

  4. Tire - Wikipedia

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    The word tire is a short form of attire, from the idea that a wheel with a tire is a dressed wheel. [3] [4] Tyre is the oldest spelling, [5] and both tyre and tire were used during the 15th and 16th centuries. During the 17th and 18th centuries, tire became more common in print.

  5. Railway tire - Wikipedia

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    The most usual cause of damage is drag braking on severe gradients.Because the brake blocks apply directly on the tire, it is heated up, relaxing the interference fit. It is not feasible to fit the tire with such a heavy interference as to eliminate this risk entirely, and the retaining ring will ensure that the tire can only rotate on the wheel center, maintaining its alignment.

  6. Rolligon - Wikipedia

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    Tires inflated to 7 psi (48 kPa) Rolligon is a trademark name for large, low-pressure tires, designed to traverse the soft ground surfaces of the tundra.The product was invented by William Albee in 1951 after he had seen Inuit using inflated seal hides to drag a heavy boat on shore.

  7. Black Dragon - Wikipedia

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    The Black Dragon (comic book), a 1980s comic book series; Black Tiger, a 1987 video game known as Black Dragon in Japan; Miracles or Black Dragon, a film by Jackie Chan; Black Dragons, a 1942 American film starring Bela Lugosi "Black Dragon", a song on Luca Turilli's 1999 album King of the Nordic Twilight

  8. Robert William Thomson - Wikipedia

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    In 1849 he invented the refillable fountain pen. [4] In 1863 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being Charles Piazzi Smyth. From 1869 to 1871 he served as president of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts. [5]

  9. John Boyd Dunlop - Wikipedia

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    John Boyd Dunlop (5 February 1840 – 23 October 1921) was a Scottish inventor and veterinary surgeon who spent most of his career in Ireland. Familiar with making rubber devices, he invented the first practical pneumatic tyres for his child's tricycle and developed them for use in cycle racing.