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TRANSPORT AND TRADE 16

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Summary: John Dunlop

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In the late 1880s John Dunlop, the famous inventor from Belfast, made the first pneumatic tyre for his son’s bicycle. This discovery greatly increased the popularity of the bicycle. The photograph shows John Dunlop on one of his own bicycles.

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