INVENTOR

John Boyd Dunlop

1840 - 1921

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John Boyd Dunlop (5 February 1840 – 23 October 1921) was a Scottish inventor and veterinary surgeon who spent most of his career in Ireland. Familiar with making rubber devices, he invented the first 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 cash sum and a small shareholding in their pneumatic tyre business. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Boyd Dunlop has received more than 644,002 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). John Boyd Dunlop is the 57th most popular inventor (down from 51st in 2019), the 385th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 363rd in 2019) and the 10th most popular British Inventor.

John Boyd Dunlop was a Scottish veterinarian and inventor. He is most famous for inventing the first practical pneumatic tire in 1888.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, John Boyd Dunlop ranks 57 out of 426. Before him are William G. Morgan, Douglas Engelbart, James Naismith, Emile Berliner, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, and Louis Renault. After him are Charles Goodyear, Henry Fox Talbot, Louis Blériot, Adam Opel, Alberto Santos-Dumont, and Isaac Singer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, John Boyd Dunlop ranks 14. Before him are Alphonse Daudet, Odilon Redon, Edward Drinker Cope, Carl Menger, Ernst Abbe, and Carlota of Mexico. After him are August Bebel, Father Damien, Per Teodor Cleve, Thomas Hardy, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, and Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein. Among people deceased in 1921, John Boyd Dunlop ranks 14. Before him are Alfred Hermann Fried, Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Talaat Pasha, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Nicholas I of Montenegro, and Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg. After him are Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Alexander Blok, Matthias Erzberger, Ignác Goldziher, and William II of Württemberg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Boyd Dunlop ranks 385 out of 8,785. Before him are Kenneth Branagh (1960), Mordred (null), Christian de Duve (1917), Pelagius (360), Henry Morgan (1635), and William Crookes (1832). After him are Angus Young (1955), Sweyn II of Denmark (1020), Robert Burns (1759), Henry Hallett Dale (1875), Lemmy (1945), and Thomas Cromwell (1485).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, John Boyd Dunlop ranks 10. Before him are George Stephenson (1781), Thomas Newcomen (1663), Richard Trevithick (1771), Frank Whittle (1907), John Logie Baird (1888), and John Herschel (1792). After him are Henry Fox Talbot (1800), Thomas Savery (1650), Henry Bessemer (1813), James Hargreaves (1720), Richard Arkwright (1732), and William Webb Ellis (1806).

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