John Boyd Dunlop

On the following year, a carriage equipped with them was seen in the streets of New York City.

But the pneumatic tire did not come into use until after 1888, when an Irish horse doctor, John Boyd Dunlop of Belfast, tied a rubber tube around the wheels of his little son's velocipede.

Within seven years after that, a $25 million corporation was manufacturing Dunlop tires.

Later, America took the lead in this business.