Automation is good, so long as you know 
exactly where to put the machine.
–Eliyahu Goldratt

The first ever stationary gasoline engine was developed by Carl Benz and it was a one-cylinder two-stroke unit which ran for the first time on New Year’s Ever back in 1879. He has so much commercial success that he was able to devote more time to his dream of creating a lightweight car that was powered by a gasoline engine working with the chassis, making one unit as a whole. The major features of this vehicle would be its high-speed single-cylinder four-stroke engine which was installed horizontally in the rear end of the car, and it had a tubular steel frame. All this allowed for the engine output to average around 0.75 hp. This was the first automobile ever created.