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John Boyd Dunlop ( February 5 , 1840 – October 23 , 1921 ) was a Scottish inventor who founded the rubber company that bears his name. He was born on a farm at Dreghorn , North Ayrshire , and studied to be a Veterinary Surgeon at the Dick Vet , University Of Edinburgh , a profession he pursued for nearly ten years at home, moving to Belfast , Northern Ireland , in 1867. In 1887 , he developed the first practical Pneumatics tyre for a boy's tricycle, tested it, and Patented it on December 7 1888 . Dunlop's invention arrived at a crucial time in the development of Road Transport . Commercial production began in late 1890 in Belfast. Dunlop assigned his patent to William Harvey Du Cros , in return for 1500 Shares in the resultant company, and in the end did not make any great fortune by his invention. Dunlop died in Dublin . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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