Leonty Shamshurenkov
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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.
Leonty Luk'yanovich Shamshurenkov | |
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Леонтий Лукьянович Шамшуренков | |
| Born | 1687 Bolshepolskaya village, Yaransky Uyezd |
| Died | 1758 (aged 70–71) |
| Occupation | Inventor |
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References
- Leonty Luk'yanovich Shamshurenkov (in Russian)
- Коляски Шамшуренкова и самокатка Кулибина / The carriages of Shamshurenkov and samokatka of Kulibin[permanent dead link] (in Russian)
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