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Its a lot like suspension dampers being called shock absorbers, springs absorb the shock, suspension dampers keep the springs from overeacting. I never heard of a locomotive being called a motor. Maybe things with big cajonas don't get called motors.
All my planes have engines on them. |
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And my boat a motor.
We prefer the Original English (,or British?) version, it is more related to the Dutch lnguage. I understand the members of USA do not have an own language but did borrow the language of English people!! Cees |
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Actually-it belongs to us ,as well.....we just brought it with us when we moved over here to a better place free from the restrictions of the stodgy folks running that country,keeping it in the dark ages.
And along with it we developed a tolerance for those who don't,or can't think as we do...Then we opened our doors of Freedom to any one who wished to come and share the combining of many nationalities for the common good. |
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That doesn't change the fact we have a motor for our boat!
And when you write:Then we opened our doors of Freedom to any one who wished to come and share the combining of many nationalities for the common good. I have to think about Werner von Braun Cees |
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Yes, Von Braun always thought so much and learned so much from the real pioneer ..Dr Goddard .
Robert H. GoddardFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) was an American professor, physicist and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket,[1][2] which he successfully launched on March 16, 1926. Goddard and his team launched 34 rockets[3] between 1926 and 1941, achieving altitudes as high as 2.6 km (1.6 mi) and speeds as high as 885 km/h (550 mph).[3][4] Goddard's work as both theorist and engineer anticipated many of the developments that were to make spaceflight possible.[5] Two of Goddard's 214 patents — one for a multi-stage rocket design (1914), and another for a liquid-fuel rocket design (1914) — are regarded as important milestones[6] toward spaceflight. His 1919 monograph A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes is considered one of the classic texts of 20th-century rocket science.[7][8] Goddard successfully applied three-axis control, gyroscopes and steerable thrust to rockets, all of which allow them to be controlled effectively in flight. [B]Don't you know about your own rocket pioneer? Dr. Goddard was ahead of us all. The Soviet NKVD had a spy in the U.S. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics. In 1935, she gave them a report Goddard had written for the Navy in 1933. It contained results of tests and flights and suggestions for military uses of his rockets. The NKVD considered this to be very valuable information. It provided few design details, but gave the Soviets the direction and progress of Goddard's work [B]“”Wernher von Braun, when asked about Goddard's work following World War II[85][edit] V-2A frequently repeated story, launched by Goddard himself, declared that at the end of World War II, he saw the remnants of the German V-2 ballistic missile and was convinced that the Germans had stolen his work. Goddard's pace was slower than the Germans' because he did not have the resources they did. But he was trying to perfect his rocket and the subsystems such as guidance and control so that it could achieve high altitudes without tumbling in the rare atmosphere, providing a stable vehicle for the experiments it would eventually carry. He was on the verge of building larger rockets to reach "extreme altitudes" when World War II intervened and changed the path of American history. Although Goddard brought his work in rocketry to the attention of the United States Army, he was rebuffed, since the Army largely failed to grasp the military application of large rockets. German military intelligence, by contrast, had once paid attention to Goddard's work. An accredited military attaché to the US, Friedrich von Boetticher, sent a four-page report in 1936, and the spy Gustav Guellich sent a mixture of facts and made-up information, claiming to have visited Roswell and witnessed a launch..... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Goddard |
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Lets see as irritating as it might be we have.
Motorcycle, motorbike motorboat outboard motor motor mount Motor Trend magazine Motor Magazine Honda Motor Company General Motors a motor vehicle the list goes on and on... definition: 1. Something, such as a machine or an engine, that produces or imparts motion. 2. A device that converts any form of energy into mechanical energy, especially an internal-combustion engine or an arrangement of coils and magnets that converts electric current into mechanical power. 3. A motor vehicle, especially an automobile. |
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Yep Earl,
Its the old "They think we are wrong, but they ain't actually right " . How about a "Light Engine" (We are talking Lumens not Kilograms) Or the Siege Engines that tossed stones into castles . The reason the terms "Motor vehicle" and "Motor boat" originally were chosen as legal descriptions is because there were so many power sources (motors) employed in the early days . "Motor" covered them all . In short , a motor is indeed an engine but not all engines are motors . A bull is an animal but not all animals are bulls . |
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Motors run on electricity. Everything else is an engine. At least that is the engineering definition. |
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Von Braun got us to the moon.
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Cajones???Quote:
Cajones means BOXES!!! Obviously he meant somethng else! |
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"Engine" is a sub-class of the "motor" family . It is OK to refer to an engine as a motor . We have commonly only one word to cover them all in the french language: "moteur" Motor:(mō'tər) n. 1.Something, such as a machine or an engine, that produces or imparts motion. 2.A device that converts any form of energy into mechanical energy, especially an internal-combustion engine or an arrangement of coils and magnets that converts electric current into mechanical power.3.A motor vehicle, especially an automobile: "It was a night of lovers. All along the highway ... motors were parked and dim figures were clasped in revery" (Sinclair Lewis). adj. 1.Causing or producing motion: motor power. 2.Driven by or having a motor. 3.Of or for motors or motor vehicles: motor oil. 4.Of, relating to, or designating nerves that carry impulses from the nerve centers to the muscles. 5.Involving or relating to movements of the muscles: motor coordination; a motor reflex. v., -tored, -tor·ing, -tors. v.intr. To drive or travel in a motor vehicle. v.tr. To carry by motor vehicle. [Middle English motour, prime mover, from Latin mōtor, from mōtus, past participle of movēre, to move.] Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/motor#ixzz1zN1MxrlO Von Braun would never have been here if not for the extensive works of Dr. Goddard. Von Braun learned from Goddard and never failed to give Goddard due credit . |
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In the early days electric motors did not go round and round. They were the basis on how the internal combustion engines worked. Plus the electric motors probably got their designs from the way the steam engines worked too. Anyway the reciprocating electric motors go way back to the 1700's. So they precede internal combustion engines by quite a bit.
There was someone from New Zealand, if I remember correctly, that made some huge radial reciprocating electric motors for powering airplanes with too. But now I can't find any references to them anymore. reciprocating electric motors This one is pretty neat as it actually sounds like a internal combustion engine.
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How interesting is this ! Wow ! We have so much information available that some of us have no idea exists !
And I can mix "engine" and "motor" with complete abandonment ! That alone will remove a lot of 'guilt' stress. "I'm going to change the oil in the Engine on my Motorcycle".okay ! |
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