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Re: Horsepower (was Re: Metric Time (was Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique))Jacques Guy (jbm@newsserver.trl.oz.au)17 Oct 1995 06:55:05 +1000
taibi@ix.netcom.com (Solomon Taibi ) writes:
>Must be you never met a horse.
>Admittedly I prefer metric, but let's not be snide about it.
I was taught that 1 cheval-vapeur = 75kgm/s which is:
75/0.454/0.3048*60= 32,519.3382 ft*lb/min
Much later, I read (I think it was in New Scientist), that
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