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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (6 children)

1 horsepower is supposed to be the rate a shitty old timey horse can work over the course of a whole day. Also it was created as a way to market steam engines to replace horses as a source of mechanical power so there was an incentive to lowball the horse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

as opposed to those new fangled fancy future horses.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
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