Daimler and his collaborator Wilhelm Maybach invented the world’s first high-speed gasoline engine in 1883, while Benz was the first to combine an internal-combustion engine with an integrated chassis.
The Benz Patent motor car was a three-wheeled device with two tall wheels flanking the rear-mounted single-cylinder engine that drove the wheels by a leather belt and chain drive. A steering tiller directed the single front wheel.