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| 10 Pounds sterling banknote, John Boyd Dunlop, bicycle. |
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| 10 Pounds sterling banknote issued by Northern Bank |
Northern Ireland banknotes 10 Pounds sterling note, Northern Bank
Obverse: Portrait of John Boyd Dunlop (1840-1921), Scottish inventor of the pneumatic tyre. Dunlop invented the tyre (a rubber tube filled with air) in 1887 for his son's bicycle. Dunlop filed a patent for his invention on 23 July 1889 and received it on 7 December 1889. Dunlop founded a tyre factory which utilised Goodyear's vulcanisation process for hardening rubber and full-scale production began in 1890.
Reverse: Portico of Belfast City Hall, sculpted by F. W. Pomeroy.