And the throttle -- that doesn't.

Uh ... what exactly do you think a throttle does?

To "throttle" means to choke.

Which, now that I look it up, is actually what the throttle *is* doing, in a
strange, counter-intuitive way.

I.E.: Early engines (such as in World War I planes) ran at full power -- or
they were off. The "throttle" was developed to actually retard power, even
though in modern usage we tend to think of it as the "accelerator"...

And here I always thought of the throttle as the "go" lever -- but it's
really the "stop" lever!
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