Nationally: yes. Check your local/state laws to see if you'll get in trouble with the local fuzz.
Do you mean a supercharger?
One definition of an engine blower is a supercharger or turbocharger
Supercharger
There are about 5-6 books on supercharger/turbo chargers. Also howstuffworks.com has a nice animation of blower and turbos
There is no difference. A blower is just a term used for a supercharger. A compressor is any machine that compresses a gas for many different purposes. A supercharger in its many forms is a type of compressor
A roots blower, also referred to as a roots-type supercharger, is used as a supercharger in engines. It operates by pumping a fluid with a set of lobed rotors. It is used in two-stroke diesel engines.
A supercharger is very impressive.
You call it a supercharger. It is referred to as a blower in some places. It is a mechanically driven device to increase the air flow into an engine, this will increase the engines output power.
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Blower Bentleys were very fast racing cars in the 1920's and 1930's. They were fitted with a blower, or supercharger. This device drove extra fuel into the engine to make the car super-quick.
Blower or Supercharger. The purpose of a blower is to shove more air into the engine. More air in the engine creates more horsepower.
Yes, There's even some with a supercharger and twin turbos. A "supercharger" is anything the increases the airflow into an engine above atmospheric, there for a turbo and a blower are both types of "superchargers". There are many applications of both turbo's and Blowers on the same engine and any combination of multiple of both, I.e. @ turbo chargers and 2 blowers or a blower and quad turbo's etc etc.