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Much better explanation Ralph! I just remember one of the old professors in engineering school (Mecahnical) going on about the difference between an engine and a motor, mainly drilling into our heads that there are electric motors, engines are purely mechanical in nature. 

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> From: "Ralph Ausmann" <ralph.ausmann@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "AMC List" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject:  Re: engine vs. motors  
> Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 19:25:30 -0800
> 
> Just rattling on about this...
> 
> I was always given to believe that engines produced their own energy forces.
> An internal combustion engine introduces gasoline, fire, and compression to
> cause the explosion which is harnessed mechanically to produce ongoing
> power.  (as in internal combustion engines).  The same thing for steam
> engines as they produce their own steam pressure energy.
> 
> Motors were simply a device that used one form of an energy force to produce
> another such as an electric motor takes electrical power from whatever it's
> source and turns it into cranking power such as a drive pulley for a bandsaw
> or a power pump, for example.  Or, a hydraulic motor may take hydraulic
> pressure and convert it to drive gears.    I would suppose that if that same
> electric motor would also generate it's own electricity for itself to use
> then it likely would be called an "electric engine".

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