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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.
Dunlop Ltd. (formerly Dunlop Rubber) [1] was a British multinational company involved in the manufacture of various natural rubber goods. Its business was founded in 1889 by Harvey du Cros and he involved John Boyd Dunlop who had re-invented and developed the first pneumatic tyre: he invented the first practical pneumatic tyres for his child's tricycle.
John Boyd Dunlop (1840–1921), UK – first practical pneumatic tyre; Cyril Duquet (1841–1922), Canada – Telephone handset; Alexey Dushkin (1904–1977), Russia – deep column station; James Dyson (born 1947), UK – Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner, incorporating the principles of cyclonic separation.
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.
Statement made by John Boyd Dunlop to John B. Purchase of 11 Queen Victoria Street for the Pneumatic Tyre Company, charting the history of his invention of the pneumatic tyre, undated. Pages three and four of a statement made by Finlay Sinclair to the same [pages one and two not present].
John Dunlop may refer to: John B. Dunlop (born 1942), American political scientist; John Boyd Dunlop (1840–1921), Scottish/Irish inventor of the pneumatic tyre and founder of the Dunlop rubber company; John Colin Dunlop (1785–1842), Scottish historian; John Dunlop (racehorse trainer) (1939–2018), British horse-racing trainer
The first practical pneumatic tire was made by John Boyd Dunlop in 1887 for his son's bicycle, in an effort to prevent the headaches his son had while riding on rough roads. (Dunlop's patent was later declared invalid because of prior art by fellow Scot Robert William Thomson .)
Dunlop Tyres is a brand of tyres which is managed by different companies around the world. It was founded by pneumatic tyre pioneer John Boyd Dunlop in Belfast, Ireland, in 1888. [5] The brand is operated by Goodyear [1] in North America (passenger car & light truck), Europe, Australia and New Zealand. [6]