Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-02 | Page 49 | Pneumatics Nearly Had Another Name |

Type	issue
Date	1919-11-02
Paper	Salt Lake Tribune
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
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Article Title	Pneumatics Nearly Had Another Name
Type	article
Date	1919-11-02
Paper	Salt Lake Tribune
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Page	49
OCR Text	Show PNEUMATICS NEARLY HAD ANOTHER NAME That pneumatic tires came near to having hav-ing another name has been discovered by deiving Into the early history -of automobile automo-bile tires. The inventor of the pneumatic tires was R. YV. Thompson, an Englishman, who called them "aerial" tires, probably because they were filled with air. Thompson Thomp-son got his patents iu 1S4D, but the invention in-vention fell into oblivion until tho late eighties, when Dr. punlop of Scotland bro,ught out his first "pneumatics."
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