Engines and Motors

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To me the internal combustion bizzo is an Engine ……………..not a motor ……….

So what is the difference between an engine and a motor.???????????...……..
…………………..Billy...………………….

To me, an engine develops its own power, whereas a motors' power is developed somewhere else and fed to it.

Dunno

We have electric motors not electric engine
We have steam engines not steam motors
We have hydraulic motors not hydraulic engines

Dunno if Im helping or not

Paul

Of course for Poms, "motor" means the whole car.

What about search engines? You don't hear the geeks talk of search motors.

And the 'engine' term for computers goes way back, to Babbage's (mechanical) Difference Engine and his later Analytical Engine in the 1830s! That's not a typo - 1830s!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_Engine

motor (n.)
"one who or that which imparts motion," mid-15c., "controller, prime mover (in reference to God);" from Late Latin motor, literally "mover," agent noun from past-participle stem of Latin movere "to move" (from PIE root *meue- "to push away"). Sense of "agent or force that produces mechanical motion" is first recorded 1660s; that of "machine that supplies motive power" is from 1856. Motor-home is by 1966. Motor-scooter is from 1919. First record of slang motor-mouth "fast-talking person" 1970's.

Engine Origin

Middle English (formerly also as ingine ): from Old French engin, from Latin ingenium ‘talent, device’, from in- ‘in’ + gignere ‘beget’; compare with ingenious. The original sense was ‘ingenuity, cunning’ (surviving in Scots as ingine ), hence ‘the product of ingenuity, a plot or snare’, also ‘tool, weapon’, later specifically denoting a large mechanical weapon; whence a machine (mid 17th century), used commonly later in combinations such as steam engine, internal combustion engine .

Mrsmackpaul wrote: Dunno

We have electric motors not electric engine
We have steam engines not steam motors
We have hydraulic motors not hydraulic engines

Dunno if Im helping or not

Paul

I am both a mechanic and an electrician and that is possibly the easiest to understand explanation Ive ever heard.

We also have Railway Engines AND Rail Motors.

A rail motor almost universally means a small train with a petrol or diesel mo..., en...................... internal combustion propulsion. Hold on, aren't there big trains powered by diesel electric. Maybe these are engines with motors?

Lang

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.Sounds so simple when you first think about it, doesn't it, ????????/
So here is another simple version...………
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engineering.mit.edu/engage/ask-an-engine...motor-and-an-engine/
……………...Billy...…………...