Georg Lankensperger

The Mauthaus (Toll house) in Marktl am Inn in the south-east Bavaria. Birthplace of Georg Lankensperger.
Also the birthplace of Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger) in 1927.
Commemorative plaque at birthplace. .. the inventor of the Ackermann steering.

Georg Lankensperger (also: Lankensberger), (31 March 1779 – 11 July 1847) was a German wheelwright who invented the steering mechanism that is today known as Ackermann steering geometry. He patented the invention in Germany, but his agent Rudolph Ackermann filed for the patent in the U.K.


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