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