Leonty Shamshurenkov
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.
A later reconstruction of Shamshurenkov's "self-running" carriage
The Tsar Bell inside the Moscow Kremlin
See also
References
- Leonty Luk'yanovich Shamshurenkov (in Russian)
- Коляски Шамшуренкова и самокатка Кулибина / The carriages of Shamshurenkov and samokatka of Kulibin (in Russian)
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