Tyre History
Who invented the first tyre ?
In 1846, Robert William Thomson, a Scottish railroad engineer, manufactured and obtained the patent for the “aerial wheel”. His invention consisted of a tube made up of “a number of folds of canvas, saturated and covered on both sides with rubber or gutta-percha” (a substance obtained from the latex of a Malaysian tree), then vulcanised and covered with leather. The tube made in this way.
In 1888, the veterinary surgeon John Boyd Dunlop imagined a wheel, which associated fabric, gum, leather and air. This imperfect tyre was rapidly applied to bicycles and gained a sharp success.
Later in 1891, 2 brothers, André & Edouard Michelin created the dismountable tyre. This invention can be considered as the ancestor of the tyre we know today.
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