Invention Of Rubber Tyres

John boyd dunlop was a scottish inventor and veterinary surgeon who spent most of his career in ireland.

Invention of rubber tyres.

Robert thompson patents the vulcanised rubber pneumatic tyre. The process is useful to convert natural rubber to a more durable material. Perhaps to differentiate them from the leather tires already being made and marketed not very successfully by a man named robert thompson. Vulcanization refers to the process of heating rubber in the presence of sulphur an accelerator and an activator at 140 160 degrees celsius.

It was durable moldable and it paved the way for the first rubber tyres. When he invented rubber tires in 1888 to cushion the ride of his son s tricycle he called them tyres. Charles goodyear discovered vulcanised rubber in 1839 by adding sulphur making it elastic and strong enough to be used as cushion tyres for cycles. The invention of vulcanised rubber by charles goodyear had huge ramifications on the manufacture of goods.

Goodyear is a big name in car tyres one which dates back to its earliest inception. Familiar with making rubber devices he re invented pneumatic tyres for his child s tricycle and developed them for use in cycle racing. Thomson patented his pneumatic tire in 1845 and while his invention worked well but it was too costly to catch on. But more probably just because he was from scotland and they like to spell things with a y.

Robert william thomson 1822 1873 invented the actual first vulcanized rubber pneumatic inflatable tire. It was in 1845 that pneumatic or air filled tyres were invented and patented by robert william thomson a scottish inventor. He sold his rights to the pneumatic tyres to a company he formed with the president of the irish cyclists association harvey du cros for a small cash sum and a small shareholding in their pneumatic tyre business.