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[–] [email protected] 65 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I learned a things:

While it is true that the maximum output of a horse is around 15 horsepower, when you average the output of a horse over the course of a work day it ends up being around a horsepower. Watt defined this amount as "the amount of work required from a horse to pull 150 pounds out of a hole that was 220 feet deep".

[–] [email protected] 61 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thank God it wasn't something arbitrary like pulling a 100 pounds out of a hole that was 250 feet deep.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

That almost sounds the metric system /s