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Nothing to do with phones........BUT....I was watching the Daytona 500 today and was wondering....how did the term horsepower come around???
How do they measure horsepower with an engine?
Thank you....
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googled "term horse power" and this is the first one that came up. https://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20041117.html
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by groundstart:
Nothing to do with phones........BUT....I was watching the Daytona 500 today and was wondering....how did the term horsepower come around???
How do they measure horsepower with an engine?
Thank you....</font>
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james watt made the term to sell his steam engines to compare the steam engine to the
horse
i have a steam computer
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he actually measured and calculated the amount of work the average horse could consistently perform and went from there.
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