Georg Lankensperger

Georg Lankensperger (also: Lankensberger; born March 31, 1779 Marktl; † July 11, 1847 in Birch Stone ) was a German car manufacturer. He was granted a patent on a first pivot steering. This steering was invented, however, already in 1761 by Erasmus Darwin.

Lankensperger made ​​his invention in 1816 as Hofwagner in Munich. It was then applied in horse-drawn carriages, Achsschenkellenkungen are still in passenger and freight cars in use.

On May 25, 1816 Georg Lankensberger received a Bavarian privilege:

" The Hofwagner Lankensberger dahier need for invention of a new servo-drive the front end, none of the so-called wheel structures Stelles, and the cars very shortened without loss of space. "

He let the steering in England patented by the publisher and entrepreneur Rudolph Ackermann, why she was there under the term " A- Steering ". The theoretically correct angle of the front wheels is called Ackermann angle.

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