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Discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928 - thinking about it, I’ve got my priorities wrong by putting this one second to television!
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John Boyd Dunlop (5 February 1840 – 23 October 1921) was a Scottish-born and educated inventor and veterinary surgeon who spent most of his career in Ireland. Familiar with making rubber devices, he re-invented pneumatic tyres for his child's tricycle and developed them for use in cycle racing. 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. Dunlop withdrew in 1896. The company that bore his name, Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company, was not incorporated until later using the name well known to the public, but it was Du Cros's creation.
Unknown to Dunlop another Scot, Robert William Thomson from Stonehaven, had patented a pneumatic tyre in 1847.
They're called Dunlop because they were invented by Robert Thomson
They're called Dunlop Pneumatic Tyres, because they were invented by Dunlop!
I think you will find that the inventory of the pneumatic tyre was Robert Thompson
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Very scottish sorry. A direct discovery of harnessing the power from the scottish radar. Robert Watson watt. And both radar and microwave use magnetrons discoverd by Scotsman james clerk maxwell to make heat. So very scottish indeed.
Not Scottish - sorry - Percy Lebaron Spencer (19 July 1894 – 8 September 1970) was an American engineer and inventor. He became known as the inventor of the microwave oven
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