pneumatic tyre

British  

noun

1. a rubber tyre filled with air under pressure, used esp on motor vehicles

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Example Sentences

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

And two hundred people pumped themselves into it, as air is forced into a pneumatic tyre.

From The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories by Bennett, Arnold

The pneumatic tyre also scores because, on account of its elasticity, it gives a "kick off" against the obstacle, which compensates for the resistance during compression.

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 Williams, Archibald

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 Cochrane, Robert