Dunlop, John

Dunlop, John Colin. History of Prose Fiction, 2 vols. (London G. Bell and Sons, 1906). 

Dunlop, John, Haugh, Richard, and Klimoff, Alexis, eds., Alexander Solzhenitsyn Critical Essays and Documentary Materials (New York Collier Books, 1975). 

The first commercially successful pneumatic tire was developed in 1888 in Belfast by the Scottish veterinarian John Boyd Dunlop primarily to improve the riding comfort of bicycles. Dunlop also showed, albeit qualitatively, that his air-inflated pneumatic took less effort to rotate than did the solid rubber tires in use at that time. His qualitative tests were the first known rolling resistance experiments on pneumatic tires. Due to this significant reduction in rolling loss, many professional cyclists in Britain and Ireland adopted air-inflated tires for their bicycles by the early 1890s. Pneumatics for the nascent automobile industry soon followed. 

Scottish inventor John Boyd Dunlop creates an air-inflated rubber tire. 

Sir Derrick Dunlop s tenure of office ended on 31 December 1971. The Medicines Commission has since then been successively chaired by Lord Rosenheim (from January 1972 to 2 December 1972, when he died suddenly). Professor A Wilson (Acting Chairman December 1972 to the middle of 1973), Sir Ronald Bodley Scott (middle of 1973 to December 1975), Professor WJH Butterfield (later Sir John Butterfield and later still Lord Butterfield, January 1976 to December 1981), Professor Rosalinde Hurley (later Dame Rosalinde Hurley, January 1982 to December 1993), Professor DH Lawson (January 1994 to December 2001) and Professor Parveen Kumar (January 2002 to October 2005). 

Rubber gained worldwide importance with the invention of the air-filled or pneumatic tires by a Scotsman, John Dunlop, in 1888. He had a successful veterinarian practice in Belfast. In his off time he worked to improve the ride of his son s tricycle. His invention happened at the right time. The automobile was emerging and the air-filled tires offered a gentler ride. Thus was begun the tire industry. 

Reinvented by John Boyd Dunlop Pneumatic tyres for bicycles... 

Hancock made solid rubber tires for Queen Victoria s carriage in 1846 and was moderately successful in his English rubber business. However, Robert William Thompson had previously invented pneumatic rubber tires in 1845 and these were reinvented by John Boyd Dunlop in 1888. 

Another Scotsman, named John B. Dunlop, replaced solid rubber bicycle tires by air-filled rubber tires in 1887. Bicycle and automobile riders would not have been able to ride comfortably without the reinvention of the pneumatic tire by this Scottish veterinarian. 

Pneumatic rubber tire (John Boyd Dunlop) Dunlop s pneumatic tires revolutionize the ride for cyclists and motorists. 

Dunlop, N.R, and Johns, R.B. Thermally induced chemical changes in the macromo-... 

It is important to consider the fundamental properties of tires used by automobiles, trucks, tractors, off-road construction equipment, and other mobile machinery. It is interesting to note that the leatho -covered pneumatic tire was invented in 1845 by Robert W. Thonq>son. John B. Dunlop among others improved on Thompson s invention and in 1895 pneumatic tires appeared on automobiles. 

No customer asked for pneumatic tires. Charles Goodyear invented the vulcanized rubber (in 1844) that was later used for tires. In 1888, John Dunlop invented the air-filled or pneumatic tires. However, his tires were for bicycles. In 1895, Andr6 Michelin was the first person to use pneumatic tires on an automobile but not successfully. It took until 1911, when Philip Strauss invented the first successful pneumatic tire. Even then the customer had not asked for them. No one did a survey to ask,... 

John Dunlop invents pneumatic tires for bicycle... 

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