Technical Do you say Engine or Motor?

I often wondered who the Brainiac was that started his instructions often times back in the day;...……… "First remove old part".

 

Military aviation manuals usually had a statement at the beginning of a task something like "Assembly is the reverse of disassembly"; thanks guys!

 

So...carriage pulled by horses used to be called a "car" for short. Horses were and are "driven". Hence, "driving a car". If the car happened to have a mechanical device that turned power into movement (an engine); and that motive power enabled linear motion (so, a motor (noun)) then...you had a motor-car!

Said motor-car could be powered by an electrical device (what we'd call a motor now) or an internal combustion engine requiring fuel and oil . Either way, once moving...you would be "motoring" (verb). Fine motoring, Motor Club, American Motors etc.

What about a trebuchet? That's a device for warfare, an "engine of war", also referred to as a siege engine--but while it does convert power into movement, it doesn't motor; rather it must be pulled by horses.
So it's an engine, but it doesn't travel by itself; however you could put fuel and oil in it depending on whether or not you'd like your target to be on fire.
Put a horse-pulled trebuchet on skids and you'd have an engine with horsepower, a sleigh that slays.
What was the question again?

 

Originally, the word dashboard applied to a barrier of wood or leather fixed at the front of a horse-drawn carriage or sleigh to protect the driver from mud or other debris "dashed up" (thrown up) by the horses' hooves.

 

What always amazed me was the pictures in a manual. They usually show a guy putting a wrench on a bolt! If you need a visual on that, your problaly not going to get very far with your project! Lol



Bones

 

What about a trebuchet, other than I want one. When I was stationed "over there" we visited a medieval walled city. It was expensive to live inside the walls of a city way back then, but the upside, the whole point of a city was one was protected from thieves, vagabonds, highwayman, invading armies and other assorted riff-raff. They had a moat around it, and gargoyles spaced along the walls and over entrances with ports on their mouth that would dispense boiling oil on unsavory characters. "No Soliciting" I guess.

 

Gasoline equates an ENGINE.
A MOTOR is electric.
Was also drilled into my head in tech school and college.
I am guilty of crossing the line sometimes when rapid thinking takes over however.

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Was that in Texas, New Mexico or Arizona?

 

I’ve always said I get my exercise jumping to conclusions and throwing fits..... All good up here!


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When I think to I say Engine for gasoline..

 

Motor just rolls off the tongue I guess.

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You say tomato, I say I couldn’t give a flying fuck at a rolling donut.

 

I really hope that no one starts a thread about "Head Gasket".

 

My motor is a Harley-Davidson. It has a 120R engine.

 

Hence, dashing through the snow...

 

Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Chrysler Motor Company, what motor oil do they recommend? Bob

 

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If you have come to my parts store. I would have asked you if you had a D8 and needed a new starter engine !

 

In this one the guy calls it a pony motor and the main a engine !

 

No.

 

I have a solution for this thread......

 

Not to throw a monkey wrench into the discussion, but since the hand crank pawl was dropped after the introduction of the electric starter, the engine won't go without first operating the motor.
And, being as it's so dependent on the electrical system, even to make the engine run,aren't all cars electric?
(Now donning firesuit.)

Roger

 

I've called a gas engine a motor but never called an electric motor an engine if that makes sence.

 

I worked on FireENGINES for 33 years...... not Fire... motors. Lol



Bones

 

The guy the operates the train is a engineer operating the engine.
Even though the power drive system in train engines is electric.

 

Ah, but on subways they're called the MOTORMAN.

Anybody who thinks they're gonna get people to use the alleged "correct" vernacular doesn't realize that the horse has already left the barn, the cat is out of the bag, and the can of worms has already opened.

Now excuse me while I go power coat my rims for my whip.

 

I always say motor but know its a engine. It drives my brother crazy that I call my drag cars race cars. He says it sounds like kindergarten talk but I tell him its just the way things in our hobby are done .

 

Goodrich? Goodyear?

 

I used a search engine to get to this question . Now I'm confused !

 

I say toe-may-toe but my wife says toe-mot-toe. What can I do?
signed;
Confused in the country