SCOTTISHINVENTIONS

SCOTLANDCHANGED THE WORLD

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THE LIST

Download every Scottish invention and inventor

✓Inventor name and dates
✓Year of invention
✓Invention name and description
✓Category
✓Disputed / contested flag
✓Sources

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The Disputed Collection

Twelve Scottish inventions where the credit is contested — disputed, double-invented, or quietly stolen. Card No. 1 of 12.

The Pneumatic Tyre collectible card — Robert William Thomson, born Stonehaven Scotland 1822, died Edinburgh 1873, and John Boyd Dunlop, born Dreghorn Scotland 1840, died 1921, each independently invented the air-filled tyre, Thomson in 1845 and Dunlop in 1888, The Disputed Collection No. 1 of 12

The Pneumatic Tyre card reverse — diagram showing Thomson's 1845 Aerial Wheel and Dunlop's 1888 pneumatic tyre 43 years apart, timeline from 1845 to 1888, myth-busting note on Thomson and the fountain pen

No. 01 / 12 — The Pneumatic Tyre

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