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The pneumatic inflatable tyre was patented by John Boyd Dunlop in 1888

Air-filled rubber tubes cushioned road impact to transform bicycle and car transportation

Scottish veterinary surgeon John Boyd Dunlop invented the air-filled pneumatic tyre to give his son's tricycle a smoother ride over cobbled streets. Vulcanised rubber tubes filled with compressed air absorbed road shocks far better than solid wooden or rubber wheels. Pneumatic tyres enabled high-speed automobile and bicycle transportation worldwide.

John Boyd Dunlop (5 February 1840 – 23 October 1921) was a Scottish inventor (5701371373) — William Murphy from Dublin, Ireland · CC BY-SA 2.0 · licence · source

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Air-filled rubber tubes cushioned road impact to transform bicycle and car transportation. The figure is taken from National Library of Scotland, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a technology fact?: Yes. It sits on the Technology shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.