Dunlop, John Boyd (1840–1921), inventor of the pneumatic tyre, was born on 5 February 1840 at Dreghorn, Ayrshire, the son of a farmer, John Dunlop, and his wife, Agnes, née Boyd. As a boy he attended the local parish school and, being considered too delicate for farm work, was allowed to continue his studies at ...
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Dunlop, John Boyd (1840–1921), inventor of the pneumatic tyre
B. W. Best
revised by Trevor I. Williams
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Dunlop, John Boyd (1840–1921)
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John Boyd Dunlop (1840–1921) by unknown photographer photograph courtesy of Dunlop Tyres Ltd
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Frood, Herbert (1864–1931), inventor and manufacturer
P. W. J. Bartrip
Frood, Herbert (1864–1931), inventor and manufacturer, was born in Balby, Doncaster, Yorkshire, on 7 March 1864, the fourth of the six children of Charles Trefusis Frood (1827–1881), draper's commercial traveller, and his wife, Amelia, née Blackwell (1830–1869). No information about his education survives, but as a boy he enjoyed making wagons and cranes, and his ambition always was to be an engineer. Aged fourteen he was apprenticed to a small firm in ...
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Fry, Jeremy Joseph (1924–2005), inventor and businessman
Anne Pimlott Baker
Fry, Jeremy Joseph (1924–2005), inventor and businessman, was born on 19 May 1924 at Grove House, Frenchay, Winterbourne, Gloucestershire, the youngest child in the family of two sons and one daughter of Cecil Roderick Fry (1890–1952), chairman of J. S. Fry & Sons Ltd...
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Hancock, Walter (1799–1852), engineer and inventor of steam carriages
R. B. Prosser
revised by Ralph Harrington
Hancock, Walter (1799–1852), engineer and inventor of steam carriages, was born on 16 June 1799, the sixth son of James Hancock, a timber merchant and cabinet-maker at Marlborough, Wiltshire. Thomas Hancock (1786–1865), who developed the manufacture of rubber, was his brother. After serving an apprenticeship to a watchmaker and jeweller in ...
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Hancock, Walter (1799–1852)
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Walter Hancock (1799–1852) by R. Roffe, pubd 1836 (after Charles Hancock) © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Hansom, Joseph Aloysius (1803–1882), architect and inventor of the safety cab
G. C. Boase
revised by Denis Evinson
Hansom, Joseph Aloysius (1803–1882), architect and inventor of the safety cab, was born in York on 26 October 1803, the second of the nine children of Henry Joseph Francis Hansom (bap. 1778, d. 1854), joiner and builder, and his wife, Sarah Simpson (...
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Hickman, Ronald Price [Ron] (1932–2011), inventor and engineer
Tom Donnelly
Hickman, Ronald Price [Ron] (1932–2011), inventor and engineer, was born on 21 October 1932 in Greytown, Natal, South Africa, one of five children of Cyril Price Hickman (1899–1958), accountant, and his wife, Hélène Albertina de Villiers, née Neethling (1900–1957), who had been a schoolteacher before her marriage. He attended ...
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Macmillan, Kirkpatrick (bap. 1812, d. 1878), inventor of the pedal bicycle
Ronald M. Birse
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Macmillan, Kirkpatrick (bap. 1812, d. 1878), inventor of the pedal bicycle, was born in the parish of Keir near Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, and baptized on 18 September 1812. He was the fifth son (the eldest of whom died aged thirteen) of Robert Macmillan, blacksmith at ...
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Shaw, Percy (1890–1976), manufacturer and inventor of the catseye road stud
John A. Hargreaves
Shaw, Percy (1890–1976), manufacturer and inventor of the catseye road stud, was born on 15 April 1890 at Heginbottom Fold, 32 Ovenden Road, Halifax, the second son of James Shaw (1843–1929), a Halifax dyer's labourer, and his second wife, Esther Hannah Morrell (1856–1922)...
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Percy Shaw (1890–1976) by Peter Laurie, 1958 Getty Images – Peter Laurie
