Motor or Engine?

texasSlick

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I notice most Forum members refer to the "go lump" as a motor.

As young engineering students, we were instructed that if a device produced useful work from heat, it was an engine. If it used electro magnetism to produce useful work, it was a motor.

Should we refer to our 2 wheeled machines as "engine cycles"?

What sayeth all? ☡

As for myself, I believe I will continue to use "motor cycle" powered by engines.

Slick
 
Internal combustion = engine

Electromagnetic force = motor

Webster's is your friend.
 
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