biography
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| lived:
| (1840–1921)
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| biography:
| Inventor, born in Dreghorn, North Ayrshire, W Scotland, UK. He was a flourishing veterinary surgeon near Belfast, when in 1888 he obtained patents on a pneumatic tyre (invented in 1845 by Robert William Thomson) for bicycles. His company, formed in 1889, became known as the Dunlop Rubber Co in 1900. |
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