The first pneumatic tyre Size:L: 80 x 60cm An execution of witches in

An execution of witches in England

Scene III of Macbeth by William Shakespeare

goddess of wisdom and Earth

showing the area between Downing Street and Dover House on Whitehall

Part of the War of the Sixth Coalition

The first pneumatic tyre Size:L: 80 x 60cm An execution of witches inThe first pneumatic tyre, 1845 (1956). Robert William Thomson (1822 1873) a Scottish inventor, first patented the pneumatic tyre in 1845. He was frustrated by the lack of thin rubber and returned to making solid tyres. In 1888 John Boyd Dunlop was granted a patent for his pneumatic bicycle tyre, but this was revoked in 1890 when it was ruled that Thomson's patent anticipated Dunlop's. A print from Things, a volume about the origin and early history of