what is horsepower? how do you determine it? why is it called horsepower? can someone please just explain horsepower in general to me i’m so confused why doesn’t it have anything to do with horses? ):
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The guy who invented the steam engine, Watt, wanted to sell his invention, and he saw that the engine was supposed to replace horses. He came up with the word “horsepower” as a marketing strategy. He measured how much power a horse can produce for this purpose.
Today, both energy units we commonly use came from Watt, where 1 hp = 750W (approximately)
A horse can actually generate up to 15 hp, and an average human can generate up to 1.2 hp during maximum output.
https://spark.iop.org/why-one-horsepower-more-power-one-horse#:~:text=The%20horsepower%20unit%20derives%20from,power%20delivered%20by%20a%20horse.
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