Leonty Luk'yanovich Shamshurenkov | |
Native Name: | Леонтий Лукьянович Шамшуренков |
Native Name Lang: | ru |
Birth Date: | 1687 |
Birth Place: | Bolshepolskaya village, Yaransky Uyezd |
Death Date: | 1758 |
Occupation: | Inventor |
Leonty Luk'yanovich Shamshurenkov (ru|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.