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Article #3933Re: Operator's Card: What's a "motor"?
From: Don Dando
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 23:03
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 23:03
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If anyone really cares.... I collect and restore outboard motors. But I think "motor" has become a misused word as has engine. Here's my cut at it: A motor is powered buy electricity and an engine is the result of combustion. Hence my 220 volt powered table saw has a motor on it rather than an engine. Also It may be more accurate to say I collect outboard engines. However, since my auto is not propelled with a battery powered motor, I don't have a car motor I have a car engine. Locomotives used to have steam engines (ever hear of a "Steam Motor"), hummm now they have diesel powered electric motors! Commercial airliners don't seem to contain jet motors, they seem to contain jet engines. Etc-ad inifinitum, ad nausaum. But who cares? (I do, I've wanted to correct the world on that for over 50 years! That's my position and I'm stickin' by it ) ! Don Dando "Lloyd Sumpter" <lsumpter@dccnet.com> wrote in message news:pan.2004.01.16.19.14.31.816765@dccnet.com... > On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 19:53:23 +0000, BinaryBillTheSailo wrote: > > > On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 19:21:04 GMT, Rick <woodtugs@dearthlink.nyet> > > wrote: > > > <SNIP> > > > An outboard motor is not an engine > > > > > > Both contain engines. > > > > > > The people who work with them are Engineers, not Motorers. > > > > Actually, the term "Engineer" comes from the latin "ingenieur", which > is the same root as the work "ingenious" :). However, after I looked this > up in my Funk'n'Dictionary, I found that it's also the root for the word > "engine" so you're kinda right after all. > > Oh, and most "Engineers" don't work on engines - mechanics do. > > Amazing the arkane trivia you learn from reading rec.boats! (Is this > considered "Off-Topic"?) > > Lloyd Sumpter, P.Eng. > >
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