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John Boyd Dunlop

1840 - 1921

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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 practical 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Boyd Dunlop is the 59th most popular inventor (down from 57th in 2019), the 540th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 385th in 2019) and the 10th most popular British Inventor.

John Boyd Dunlop was a Scottish veterinarian and inventor. He is most famous for inventing the first practical pneumatic tire in 1888.

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Among inventors, John Boyd Dunlop ranks 59 out of 426. Before him are Samuel Pierpont Langley, Richard Trevithick, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, Adam Opel, Charles Goodyear, and William G. Morgan. After him are Louis Blériot, Emile Berliner, Willis Carrier, Étienne Lenoir, Theodore Maiman, and Louis Renault.

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Among people born in 1840, John Boyd Dunlop ranks 16. Before him are Odilon Redon, Edward Drinker Cope, Ernst Abbe, Carl Menger, Hiram Maxim, and Father Damien. After him are August Bebel, Crazy Horse, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein, George Smith, and Hans Makart. Among people deceased in 1921, John Boyd Dunlop ranks 16. Before him are Alfred Hermann Fried, Ludwig III of Bavaria, Carl Menger, Talaat Pasha, Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, and `Abdu'l-Bahá. After him are Antoni Grabowski, Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Alexander Blok, Engelbert Humperdinck, and Mykola Leontovych.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, John Boyd Dunlop ranks 540 out of 8,785. Before him are Patrick Stewart (1940), George Eliot (1819), Charles Lyell (1797), Robert Burns (1759), Princess Margaret of Connaught (1882), and Robert Plant (1948). After him are Archibald Hill (1886), Adele (1988), Peter Brook (1925), Henry Hudson (1570), Edmund Crouchback (1245), and Thomas Becket (1119).

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Among inventors born in United Kingdom, John Boyd Dunlop ranks 10. Before him are George Stephenson (1781), John Logie Baird (1888), Thomas Newcomen (1663), John Herschel (1792), Frank Whittle (1907), and Richard Trevithick (1771). After him are Henry Fox Talbot (1800), Rowland Hill (1795), Thomas Savery (1650), John Harrison (1693), Richard Arkwright (1732), and Henry Bessemer (1813).

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