Who knew all these years later we'd still be using a unit he developed to compare steam engines to horsepower. We'll go through Watt's back of the napkin math, discuss in simple terms what horsepower ...

There are lots of different things about cars that people prioritize. Some put payload on top of their priority list, while others may go for speed, or overall aesthetics, like a nice-looking color ...

Horsepower is often one of the first statistics mentioned in the same breath as a car's make and model, especially within ...

The practice of measuring a car engine's overall strength in horsepower dates all the way back to 18th-century Scotland, when James Watt invented the steam engine and devised a metric to measure its ...

An engine's power output is a vital piece of knowledge, and a great marketing tool. Since the dawn of the steam engine, the power of internal combustion engines has been calculated in horsepower. It ...

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Anytime force—either a push or a pull-is applied to an object and an opposite reaction takes place, work happens. For example, when meathead's El Camino breaks down and he pushes it home, work occurs.

Blame it on timing. When James Watt gave the term horsepower an exact-ish definition in the 1780s, he actually borrowed the math behind it from one of Isaac Newton's assistants. It was John ...

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Jerry Seinfeld once quipped, "Why do we even use the term 'horsepower'? Is that to further humiliate horses? The space shuttle rockets have 20 million horsepower. Is there any point in still comparing ...

The industry is seeing a "slight backlash" against ultimate performance cars. What makes a supercar "super"? Is it horsepower, 0-60 mph records or the gratification of rowing your own gears?

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