pneumatic tyre
Britishnoun
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In the late 1880s, Scottish inventor John Dunlop supplied the missing part of the puzzle by reinventing the pneumatic tyre, which had been developed few decades previously, but which had failed to take off.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2019
He promptly organized a tire company, persuaded Dunlop to join him, and with classic forethought predicted in his prospectus: "The pneumatic tyre will be almost indispensable for ladies and persons with delicate nerves."
From Time Magazine Archive
When selecting an "outside" take care that you secure one equipped with a pneumatic tyre.
From The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway by Robert Lloyd Praeger
Hang an empty "inner tube" of a pneumatic tyre over a nail and inflate it, and you will get a good illustration of the principle.
From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams
In the 'Rover' bicycle he gave an impetus to the early history of the machine, which has been crowned in the pneumatic tyre, the invention of John Boyd Dunlop, born at Dreghorn, Ayrshire, in 1840.
From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Robert Cochrane
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