Except for the USS Kearsarge (even that is named after another ship, which in turn is named after a mountain), no United States battleships have ever been named after people or artifacts. C'mon, Rosetto, you can research better!

USS Missouri begs to differ.

Its different when power generation is the entire intended purpose of the device. The words motor and engine are basically interchangeable at this point. Its silly to simply take the individual components and call them different names when we are talking about the system as a whole.

"The opposite of an engine would be something that takes mechanical motion and turns it into energy, I suppose-a generator."

Most motorcyclists dont recognize that abortion as a real bike. Bikes should have a turning radius less than a mile.

A turbine is not an engine...and you have two listed there.

Soon.

I'll buy that for a dollar!!

Dead or broke, you're still going with him.