When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once.
In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
When you get on a good horse, you just know. They are powerful, they stop quickly, they can turn in both directions, and they are fast.
Learning to domesticate the horse was a sort of energy revolution.
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.
Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.
Guys want a 500 horsepower car. I'd rather have one horsepower - in a horse. That's macho. You go to pick up your date and you show up on a horse.
The airplane I usually fly has 450 horse power, and it's all made out of carbon fibre - you can't break it; your body will break before the airplane does.
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