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- October 22, 1917
John Boyd Dunlop Scottish Inventor of the Pneumatic Rubber Tire Died.
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Born into a farming family in Dreghorn in Ayrshire, John Boyd Dunlop was a veterinary surgeon by profession, having qualified at Edinburgh Veterinary College (now part of Edinburgh University ) when he was only 19. He worked as a vet in Edinburgh for n