Andrey Nartov

During the period 1712-1725 Nartov worked in the newly founded Saint Petersburg, at the palace workshop of the Tsar Peter the Great.

[1] The Hermitage Museum, Russia displays the copying lathe for ornamental turning: making medals and guilloche patterns designed by Nartov, 1721.

In his letters to Peter I, Nartov wrote that nowhere in Europe could he find lathe masters comparable to Russian ones.

Among other inventions of Nartov are such things as a unique fast-fire battery on a rotating disc, a screw mechanism for changing the artillery fire angle, a gauge-boring lathe for cannon-making and an early telescopic sight.

Nartov supervised the building of a device intended to lift the gigantic Tsar Bell onto a bell-tower.