Charles Jeantaud

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Charles Jeantaud
Born	(1840-11-23)November 23, 1840 Limoges, France
Died	November 30, 1906(1906-11-30) (aged 66) Paris, France
Occupation	Engineer

Charles Jeantaud (1840-1906) was a French engineer who invented the parallelogram steering linkage in 1878.^{[citation needed]}

Early life

He was born in Limoges, in what is now the Haute-Vienne department of central France.

Career

In 1881 he built his first electric car, with help from Camille Alphonse Faure, who had built the first modern day car battery in 1881. The vehicle had a Gramme-design electric motor with a Fulmen-made battery. From 1893 to 1906 he built vehicles under the trademark Jeantaud in Paris.

Personal life

He committed suicide in 1906.

See also

• History of the electric vehicle

References

http://www.lepopulaire.fr/limoges/loisirs/art-litterature/2015/03/22/le-limougeaud-charles-jeantaud-fut-lun-des-peres-de-la-voiture-electrique_11374211.html

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