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John Boyd Dunlop
John Boyd Dunlop was a Scottish-born veterinary surgeon in Belfast who in 1888 developed a practical pneumatic tyre, first for his son's tricycle. Its rapid adoption for bicycles and then motor cars created a huge world demand for rubber, which drove the brutal exploitation of wild rubber in the Congo Free State and the Amazon.
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