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Events on Wednesday 10 December 1845 1
1845Pneumatic tyre patentedRobert William Thomson patents the air-filled tyreThe Scottish engineer Robert William Thomson was granted a British patent for an air-filled tyre for carriage wheels. His design was not commercially successful at the time. John Boyd Dunlop reinvented the pneumatic tyre in 1888.