The tire and...Full view - About this bookOf Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical ChangeWiebe E. Bijker - Philosophy - 1997 - 380 pages...material, such as caoutchouc or gutta percha, and inflating it with air, whereby the wheels will in every part of their revolution present a cushion of air to the ground or trail or track on which they run (ibid.).