{"topic":"engine","count":1,"articles":[{"id":"britannica-11-engine","work_id":"britannica-11","title":"Engine","normalized_title":"engine","slug":"engine","aliases":["Engines"],"subtitle":"Internet Archive OCR import","body_text":"ENGINE (Lat. ingenium), a term which in the time of Chaucer had the meaning of \" natural talent \" or \" ability,\" corresponding to the Latin from which it is derived (cf. \" A man hath sapiences thre, Memorie, engin, and intellect also,\" Second Nun's Tale, 339); in this sense it is now obsolete. It also denoted a mechanical tool or contrivance, an'd especially a weapon of war; this use may be compared with that of ingenium in classical Latin to mean a clever idea or device, and in later Latin, as in Tertullian, for a warlike instrument or machine. In the igth century it came to have, when employed alone, a specific reference to the steam-engine (q.v.), but it is also used of other prime movers such as the air-engine, gas-engine and oil-engine (qq.v.).","body_html":"<p>ENGINE (Lat. ingenium), a term which in the time of Chaucer had the meaning of &quot; natural talent &quot; or &quot; ability,&quot; corresponding to the Latin from which it is derived (cf. &quot; A man hath sapiences thre, Memorie, engin, and intellect also,&quot; Second Nun&#x27;s Tale, 339); in this sense it is now obsolete. It also denoted a mechanical tool or contrivance, an&#x27;d especially a weapon of war; this use may be compared with that of ingenium in classical Latin to mean a clever idea or device, and in later Latin, as in Tertullian, for a warlike instrument or machine. In the igth century it came to have, when employed alone, a specific reference to the steam-engine (q.v.), but it is also used of other prime movers such as the air-engine, gas-engine and oil-engine (qq.v.).</p>","volume_id":"britannica-11-v9","page_range_label":"Vol. 9, pp. 406-406","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabrit09chisrich/page/n437/mode/1up","text_source_url":"https://archive.org/download/encyclopaediabrit09chisrich/encyclopaediabrit09chisrich_djvu.txt","scan_source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabrit09chisrich","quality_status":"ocr-imported-page-aligned","parser_version":"ia-djvu-xml-v1","page_refs":[{"page_number":"406","label":"p. 406","image_url":"/source-assets/scans/britannica-11/encyclopaediabrit09chisrich/encyclopaediabrit09chisrich_0438.jpg","source_image_url":"https://archive.org/download/encyclopaediabrit09chisrich/encyclopaediabrit09chisrich_jp2.zip/encyclopaediabrit09chisrich_jp2%2Fencyclopaediabrit09chisrich_0438.jp2&ext=jpg","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabrit09chisrich/page/n437/mode/1up"}],"work":{"id":"britannica-11","slug":"britannica-11","title":"Encyclopaedia Britannica","short_title":"Britannica 11th","edition":"11th edition","publisher":"Cambridge University Press","publication_start_year":1910,"publication_end_year":1911,"language":"English","country":"United Kingdom / United States","copyright_status_note":"First published before 1931; treated as public domain in the United States. 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