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.

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