Charles Jeantaud
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Charles Jeantaud
Jeantaud Milord, 1898
Charles Jeantaud (1840-1906) was a French engineer who invented the parallelogram steering linkage in 1878.
Early life[]
He was born in Limoges, in what is now the Haute-Vienne department of central France.[1]
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.
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