Abstract

This paper will discuss the life and career of Leonid Nikolayevich Reshetov, professor of MSTU, Honored Inventor of RSFSR. He was a great engineer, scientist and inventor. His contribution to the science of Mechanisms and Machines is truly invaluable; he took an active part in improvement of courses in the Theory of Mechanisms and Machines and development of Machinery Design. He developed a new research area in Theory of Mechanisms and Machines: Theory of Rational Mechanisms, also known as self-aligning mechanisms. For many years he was the curator of the Collection of Mechanisms at the Department of TMM. More than 100 models were made by students at workshops of the Department under his direction and by using his inventions, pictures and his own experimental model.

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