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  1. 1840-1921. Scottish inventor who founded the
  2. rubber company that bears his name. In 1887,
  3. to help his child win a tricycle race, he
  4. bound an inflated rubber hose to the wheels.
  5. The same year he developed commercially
  6. practical pneumatic tyres (first patented by
  7. R W Thomson in 1846) for bicycles and cars.
  8.