Dunlop was inducted into the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame
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John Boyd Dunlop
John Boyd Dunlop 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…
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business · Scottish inventor and veterinary surgeon · inventor · entrepreneur · veterinarian · also John Boyd Dunlop, Dunlop
Born 5 February 1840 · Died 23 October 1921 · Q222116
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2006).
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2005· 1 entry
Dunlop was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame
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1921· 1 entry
Died 1921-10-23.
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1896· 1 entry
Du Cros sold their whole bicycle tyre business to British financier Terah Hooley for £3 million
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1895· 1 entry
And took no further interest in the tyre or rubber business
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1892· 1 entry
Retired from his veterinary practice and moved to Dublin soon after Harvey Du Cros with his assistance successfully refloated Booth Bros of Dublin as the Pneumatic Tyre and Booth's Cycle Agency
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1889· 1 entry
Winning the tyre's first-ever races in Ireland and then England
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1840· 1 entry
Born 1840-02-05.
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