Talk about horsepower, and most of us automatically think about vehicles! But of course, the word horsepower was originally used to describe our equine friends and their sheer power!
Horsepower is a unit of measurement of power. Power is the rate at which work is done – so not just how strong something is, but also how fast the work ...
It would be easy to assume that one horse has one horsepower, but as we’ve already seen, it isn’t that simple! The measurement of horsepower was calculated ...
The measurement of horsepower also takes into account the period of time over which the work was carried out. Once you take all these different factors ...
Although it is doubtful that modern-day horses can sustain work for long periods like draft horses used to in the mills, they are still immensely powerful ...
The world’s strongest horse is Petra, a Belgian Draft Horse. Petra was trained as part of a team to pull logs, and her owner soon realized that this huge horse had ...
So, as we’ve learned, the horsepower of a horse is the amount of work one draught horse would do over a normal working day. It is unlikely our modern-day riding horses are this strong, so our horses are probably less than one horsepower!