John Boyd Dunlop
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John Boyd Dunlop was a Scottish inventor and veterinary surgeon who spent most of his career in Ireland. Familiar with making rubber devices, he invented the practical pneumatic tyres for his child's
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Dunlop's first pneumatic bicycle tyre National Museum of Scotland
Plaque on the site of Dunlop's tyre factory on Stephen Street, Dublin.
Dunlop on a bicycle c. 1915
Dean's Grange Cemetery
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Dean's Grange Cemetery is situated in the suburban area of Deansgrange in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, County Dublin, Ireland. Since it first opened in 1865, over 150,000 people have been buried there. It
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…J. B. Dunlop did not make any great fortune by his invention. John Boyd Dunlop died at his home in Dublin's Ballsbridge in 1921 and is buried in Deans Grange Cemetery. Although the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company no longer exists as a corporate entity, the Dunlop name lives on in a number of Dunlop-branded products…
Celtic cross in Deans Grange Cemetery
The main walkway dividing the North (Catholic) and South (Protestant) sections
Easter Rising 1916 memorial, Deansgrange Cemetery.
John McCormack (1884–1945), world-famous tenor