Re: Horsepower

[sbender@dsd.es.com (Steve Bender)]

>    What's the standard for Horsepower, anyway?  Is there a Standard Horse kept
> in a vault in Paris?  Or was it defined statistically, by flogging the
> daylights out of a thousand horses on some primitive turn-of-the-century
> dynamometer?

1HP = 550 ft-lbs/sec = 746 Watts

It's left as an exercise to the reader to convert the units to
stone-furlongs/fortnight.

-Steve-