December 7 in Victorian History
What the Victorians were up to on this date, year by remarkable year.
1888
Dunlop patents the pneumatic tyre
In Belfast, Scottish vet John Boyd Dunlop is granted a British patent for the pneumatic tyre -- invented to smooth his son's tricycle ride over cobbles. The air-filled tyre will make the bicycle boom, then carry the motor car. Cycling will never be the same.