History on the pneumatic Tyres
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Discover the rich history of tyres on our Tyres Blog, featuring John Boyd Dunlop and his ground breaking contributions to tyre design. He was born on the 5th of February, 1840 his nationality was of Scottish origin. Additionally and he was the co-founder of Dunlop Rubber. Consequently he died at the age of 81 on 23rd October 1921 in Dublin, Ireland. John Boyd Dunlop, familiar with making rubber devices. Moreover he made the first pneumatic tyres for his child’s tricycle and used them for cycle racing. He formed a pneumatic tyre company with the president of the Irish Cyclists’ Association called Harvey du Cros. Then he sold his rights for a small cash sum and a small shareholding in their pneumatic tyres business.
Dunlop studied to be a veterinary surgeon at the Dick Vet, University of Edinburgh and moved to Downpatrick , Ireland in 1867. Then, finally, he made the first pneumatic tyre (inflatable tyre) using his knowledge and experience with rubber in the garden of his home in Belfast. He fitted it with a 96 centimetres wooden disk across. The tyre was a blown up tube of sheet rubber; he rolled his wheel and a metal wheel from his son’s tricycle across his yard. The metal wheel had stopped rolling while the pneumatic tyre he had made kept on going until it had hit a gatepost and rebounded.
Willie Hume ( The leader of the Belfast Cruisers Cycling club) demonstrated Dunlop’s tyres in 1889, winning the tyre’s first ever races in Ireland and England. Hume became the first member of the public to buy a bicycle fitted with pneumatic tyres so Dunlop recommended using it in a race. Hume won (on 18th May 1889) all four cycling events at the Queen’s College race.
Goodyear Tyres Early Developer
Charles Goodyear manufactured Goodyear Tyres, he was born on December 29th 1800 in New Haven, Connecticut. In around 1817, Charles left his home to go to Philadelphia to learn the hardware business. He worked hard until he was the age of 25. Furthermore he then returned to Connecticut entered a partnership in his father’s business in Naugatuck, CT.
It was not until 1841, In conclusion after much hardship and time spent in jail for debt, that Goodyear landed on a solution. He found that by uniformly heating sulphur- and lead-fortified rubber at a relatively low temperature. Consequently he could render the substance melt-proof and reliable.
As a result in 1839 he accidentally dropped some India rubber mixed with sulphur on a hot stove and so discovered vulcanization. Therefore he was granted his first patent in 1844 but had to fight numerous infringements in court. In conclusion the decisive victory did not come until 1852.
Goodyear’s discovery, which came to be known as vulcanization, therefore strengthened rubber consequently it could be applied to a vast variety of industrial uses, then eventually, automobile tyres.
Through years of research and a single stroke of luck, Conclusion Charles Goodyear saved the doomed rubber industry by inventing a process that made the material durable and therefore resilient enough for industrial use.
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