 In 1896, Frederick and his brother built a gasoline-driven car in England, a single cylinder internal combustion engine with chain drive.Unhappy with the car's performance and power, they re-designed the engine the following year using two horizontally-opposed cylinders and a newly designed wick carburetor.Carburetors were the common method of fuel delivery for most US-made gasoline engines until the late 1980s, when fuel injection became the preferred method.