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Robert William Thomson, lived from 26 July 1822 to 8 March 1873.

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Robert William Thomson

Scottish businessman and inventor

Robert William ThomsonPRSSAFRSE (29 June 1822 – 8 March 1873) was a Scottish inventor known for inventing the refillable fountain pen and the pneumatictyre.^[1]

Life

He was born on 29 June 1822^[2] in Stonehaven in the northeast of Scotland, He was baptised into the Church of Scotland on 26 July 1822.

Robert was the eleventh of twelve children of a local woolen mill owner. His family wished him to study for the ministry, but Robert refused, one reason being his inability to master Latin.

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Robert William Thomson PRSSA FRSE was a Scottish inventor known for inventing the refillable fountain pen and the pneumatic tyre.

He was born in Stonehaven in 1822, leaving school at 14 to work for his uncle in Charleston, South Carolina.

Robert left school es, where he was apprenticed to a merchant. Two years later he returned home and taught himself chemistry, electricity and astronomy with the help of a local weaver who had knowledge of mathematics.

Robert's father gave him a workshop, and by the time he was 17 years old he had rebuilt his mother's washing mangle so that the wet linen could be passed through the rollers in either directi