Title

The first pneumatic tyre, 1845 (1956). Artist: Unknown

Caption

The first pneumatic tyre, 1845 (1956). Robert William Thomson (1822-1873) a Scottish inventor, first patented the pneumatic tyre in 1845. He was frustrated by the lack of thin rubber and returned to making solid tyres. In 1888 John Boyd Dunlop was granted a patent for his pneumatic bicycle tyre, but this was revoked in 1890 when it was ruled that Thomson's patent anticipated Dunlop's. A print from Things, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union The Grosvenor Press, London, 1956.
The Print Collector collection

Date

1956

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C53_061

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (3,4Mb) / 12,5in x 15,5in / 3748 x 4659 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation technology country science British Scotland innovation location SCOTTISH Victorian century Britain rubber inflatable concept tyre invention B&W MONOCHROME inflated road Transport 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century Scots The Print Collector pneumatic tyre Unknown John Robert William John Dunlop Dunlop John Boyd Dunlop Robert William Thomson;Thomson John Dunlop