John Boyd Dunlop

John Boyd Dunlop (February 5, 1840 – October 23, 1921) is a Scottish inventor and veterinary surgeon who spends most of his career in Ireland.

Familiar with making rubber devices, he re-invents pneumatic tires for his child's tricycle and develops them for use in cycle racing.

He sells his rights to the pneumatic tires 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 tire business.

Dunlop withdraws in 1896.

The company that bears his name, Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company, is not incorporated until later using the name well known to the public, but it is Du Cros's creation.

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