{"id":1357,"date":"2026-01-16T23:32:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2025-08-05T10:18:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T14:18:39","slug":"tdibh-happy-birthday-andre-michelin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/tdibh-happy-birthday-andre-michelin\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day in Business History: Happy Birthday, Andr\u00e9 Michelin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 16, 1853: Andr\u00e9 Michelin, founder of Michelin Tire Company, is born in Paris. Michelin took over his family&#8217;s failing farm equipment company, which manufactured rubber parts such as belts and valves, in 1886. A few years later, he was approached by a cyclist who was having trouble with his tires. At that time, bicycle tires were hard and glued to the wheel. Andr\u00e9 Michelin and his brother Edouard discovered an opportunity to create something new, and incorporated\u00a0the Michelin Tire Company on May 28, 1889. They took out a patent on the\u00a0removable pneumatic tire in 1891 and have been a leading force in the space since.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sources: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyplace.com\/specials\/calendar\/january.htm#jan-20\">The History Place<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michelin\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read more from the Goizueta Business Library collection:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/files\/2017\/02\/michelin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1358 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/files\/2017\/02\/michelin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/discovere.emory.edu\/business:default_scope:01EMORY_ALMA21153641620002486\">Marketing Michelin: Advertising &amp; Cultural Identity in Twentieth-Century France<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 16, 1853: Andr\u00e9 Michelin, founder of Michelin Tire Company, is born in Paris. Michelin took over his family&#8217;s failing farm equipment company, which manufactured rubber parts such as belts and valves, in 1886. A few years later, he was approached by a cyclist who was having trouble with his tires. At that time, bicycle <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/tdibh-happy-birthday-andre-michelin\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2869,"featured_media":1360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates","category-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/files\/2017\/01\/240px-Michelin_Poster_1898.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1731,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions\/1731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}