John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish pneumatic tyre inventor - Stock Image - H404/0170 - Science Photo Library
![Ulster Museum on Twitter: "The inventor of the pneumatic tyre, John Boyd Dunlop, was born #OnThisDay 1840. According to the story, he thought of his idea for an inflated rubber tyre in Ulster Museum on Twitter: "The inventor of the pneumatic tyre, John Boyd Dunlop, was born #OnThisDay 1840. According to the story, he thought of his idea for an inflated rubber tyre in](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dypzg63X0AASTqV.jpg)
Ulster Museum on Twitter: "The inventor of the pneumatic tyre, John Boyd Dunlop, was born #OnThisDay 1840. According to the story, he thought of his idea for an inflated rubber tyre in
![John Boyd Dunlop on a bicycle taken from the book 'Dunlop in War and Peace', and includes his signature. | The book John Boyd Dunlop on a bicycle taken from the book 'Dunlop in War and Peace', and includes his signature. | The book](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c1/0b/51/c10b51aaee97c3b4dad554ba1150509c.jpg)