1. Thomas Humber was an English engineer and cycle manufacturer who developed and patented a safety bicycle with a diamond-shaped frame and wheels of similar size.
10 Facts About Thomas Humber
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Thomas Humber improved cycle technology through the independence of his thinking and his practical ability.
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Thomas Humber was born on Andrew Street, Brightside, Sheffield on 16 October 1841 the son of Samuel Humber, a tailor, and his wife Lucy.
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Thomas Humber's parents moved to Kingston upon Hull when he was 5 years old and he attended the Salthouse Lane school.
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Thomas Humber built himself a velocipede based on a picture in a letter about the Paris-developed machine that was published in the English Mechanic magazine in late 1868.
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Now free, Thomas Humber got the backing of Nottingham lace bleacher dyer and finisher, T Harrison Lambert, and took charge of the whole business and its Beeston works.
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Thomas Humber agreed to manage the whole enterprise with its works in Coventry and Wolverhampton as well as Beeston.
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Thomas Humber retired in 1892 at the end of his 5-year contract.
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Thomas Humber then involved himself in the development of the pneumatic tyre and floated Beeston Pneumatic Tyre Company Limited.
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Thomas Humber married Eleanor Robinson, 30 years his junior, in Paddington on 9 September 1903.