DO YOU KNOW?

DO YOU KNOW?
wheels has been around since civilization, but the rise of something wonderful happened in 1888 when Scottish veterinarian John Boyd Dunlop invented the first air-filled or pneumatic tires. He attached rubber hoses to wooden wheels and covered the contact patches with thick canvas. He placed these first tires on a tricycle and took a test run, then from there innovations took on until what we see today

John Boyd Dunlop (5 February 1840 – 23 October 1921) was a Irish Scottish-born inventor and veterinary surgeon who spent most of his career in Ireland. Familiar with making rubber devices, he re-invented pneumatic tyres for his child's tricycle and developed them for use in cycle racing. He sold his rights to the pneumatic tyres to a company he formed with the president of the Irish Cyclists' Association, Harvey Du Cros, for a small cash sum and a small shareholding in their pneumatic tyre business. Dunlop withdrew in 1896. The company that bore his name, Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company, was not incorporated until later using the name well known to the public, but it was Du Cros's creation.