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Leonty Shamshurenkov
1687-01-01 – 1758-01-01
Life & Legacy
Leonty Luk'yanovich Shamshurenkov (Russian: Леонтий Лукьянович Шамшуренков) (1687–1758) was a self-taught Russian inventor of peasant origin, who designed a device for lifting the Tsar Bell onto a bell-tower, constructed in 1752 the first self-propelling or self-running carriage (may be regarded as precursor to both quadrocycle and automobile) and proposed projects of an original odometer and self-propelling sledge.
Occupation & Career
inventor
Sources & Provenance
- Wikidata population candidate Q4519991 — wikidata View source
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