Leonty Luk'yanovich Shamshurenkov (1687—1758) was a self-taught Russia

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n 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

Carriage

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 (may be regarded as precursor to both quadrocycle and automobile

Automobile

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) and proposed projects of an original odometer

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 and self-propelling sledge.