US Patent illustration of Robert William Thomson <i>Aerial wheel</i>, in fact the first pneumatic tire. UK patent No 10990, 07-12-1845; US patent No 5104, 08-05-1847.
Thomsons <i>Aerial wheel</i> predated Dunlop's invention by 43 years.
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