About Leonty Shamshurenkov
Lived 1687 – 1758 (aged 70–71). Leonty Shamshurenkov was an inventor.
Leonty Luk'yanovich Shamshurenkov (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.
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Who was Leonty Shamshurenkov?
Russian inventor
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Leonty Shamshurenkov was born in 1687 in Yaransky Uyezd.
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Leonty Shamshurenkov died in 1758.
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Leonty Shamshurenkov was an inventor.
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