TE261
The Engine
Art-Impression or Educative Model – That’s the question
An engine is a mechanical device that produces some form of output from a given input. Sometimes it's called motor as in motorvehicle.
An engine whose purpose is to produce kinetic energy output from a fuel source is called a prime mover; alternatively, a motor is a device which produces kinetic energy from a preprocessed "fuel" (such as electricity, a flow of hydraulic fluid or compressed air).
Heat engine
Reciprocating engine
Internal combustion engine
Diesel engine
Wankel engine
Pulse jet engine
External combustion engine
Steam engine
Carnot heat engine
Stirling engine
Software engine
Search engine
Game engine
Layout engine
Rendering engine
Ray-tracing engine
Polymorphic engine
Mutation engine
Difference engine
Analytical engine
Picture from the Marin Museum in Karlskrona, Sweden