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My physics teacher used to joke that the standard horsepower was James Watt's horse, forever preserved in a vacuum in France.
by mbg721 4y ago
My physics teacher used to joke that the standard horsepower was James Watt's horse, forever preserved in a vacuum in France.
- onion2k 4y agoThat doesn't make sense because 1 horse has a maximum power output of approximately 15 horsepower.
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- mbg721 4y agoWell, it's scientific in the same way that an accused witch and a duck look the same weight on the scale then. Besides, after a few minutes sous vide, I wouldn't be able to pull with all my usual strength, would you?
- himinlomax 4y agoNot in a vacuum.
- onion2k 4y agoWhat if it's a spherical horse?
- dgoodell 4y agoPeak horsepower is not that relevant to the sorts of applications that horses were performing that they proposed to use engines for. In that case they wanted sustained power, and a horse can only produce about 1 horsepower sustained.
- labcomputer 4y ago1 HP was meant to represent the average amount of power a horse could sustain for a work shift. A horse can’t sustain 15 HP for more than a few seconds at a time.