He Built the World's First Motorcycle Engine — History Gave the Credit to Someone Else.

#MercedesBenzHistory #ForgottenEngineers #AutomotiveHistory He built the world's first motorcycle engine — and history gave the credit to someone else. In 1885, a self-taught orphan named Wilhelm Maybach designed the gasoline engine that powered the Daimler Reitwagen, the machine now recognized as the first motorcycle on earth. Maybach was the engineering mind behind nearly every breakthrough that came out of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft — the company that would one day become Mercedes-Benz. But his partner became the public face of the business, a wealthy customer's daughter gave the cars a new name, and the board that owed him everything eventually pushed him out the door. This is the true story of the man behind the first motorcycle engine, the birth of the automobile industry, and the name history almost erased. If stories about forgotten engineers and the people written out of invention history matter to you, subscribe — a new episode goes up every week. #WilhelmMaybach #DaimlerReitwagen #GottliebDaimler #FirstMotorcycle #GermanEngineering