Motor or Engine?

[texasSlick]

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

 

[grandpaul]

Internal combustion = engine

Electromagnetic force = motor

Webster's is your friend.

 

[texasSlick]

Internal combustion = engine

Electromagnetic force = motor

Webster's is your friend.

Steam engine = external combustion = heat= engine

 

[Bob Matthews]

Engine for me too, always has been.

 

[grandpaul]

Steam engine = external combustion = heat= engine

Right you are!