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Thursday 3 August 2006
What is horsepower
What is horsepower? This from the Wikipedia entry on horsepower.
There have been many definitions for the term over the years since James Watt first coined the term in 1782. The following metrics have been widely used:
* Mechanical horsepower - 0.74569987158227022 kW (33,000 ft·lbf per minute)
* Metric horsepower - 0.73549875 kW
* Electrical horsepower - 0.746 kW
* Boiler horsepower - 9.8095 kW
Additionally, the term "horsepower" has been applied to calculated (rather than measured) metrics: