John Boyd Dunlop, a Scottish veterinary surgeon,…
December 1888 CE
John Boyd Dunlop, a Scottish veterinary surgeon, “re-invents” the pneumatic tire in 1888, developed more than forty years earlier by his countryman, Robert William Thomson.
He receives a patent in the United Kingdom on December 8, 1888.
The invention will fuel the bicycle craze currently sweeping the developed world.