Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-09-05 | Page 26 | Relates Secrets of Horsepower

ued service. As the word is used today, to-day, it is simply a technical term of power measurement, and in no way related to old Dobbin. Horsepower as a technical term expresses the number of pounds lifted one foot in one minute. One horsepower equals the lifting of 33,-000 33,-000 pounds one foot in one minute, or 1000 pounds thirty-three feet in one minute, or one pound 33,000 feet in one minute. Generally speaking, a horsepower in motors as compared with the horsepower of the animal would mean that the live horse has about four or five horsepower of the technical tech-nical kind. RELATES SECRETS 0F1SEP0WER Hard Problem for Auto Owner Often Misunderstood, Misunder-stood, Says Expert. "What is borsepowerf This question, while well understood by engineers in general, is a hard problem, for the auto owner to grasp, says George M. Dickson, Dick-son, who Jidds: Horsepower provides a never-failing source of discussion for the motorist. mo-torist. No other term in his vocabulary vocab-ulary is so misunderstood, or has so many interpretations, anj at the same time it is a subject of vital importance to him, for the reason that it affects his comfort, his pride and his bank account. There are many laymen who think that bv horsepower Is meant the average av-erage "load wbich a horse can pull in continued service. Tois is not true, however, as the palling poweT of horses varies and no definite point could be reached in this way. It is evident that a large horse is capable of pulling a greater load in I continued service than a smaller animal. The term ''horsepower" was first used by James Watt, after numerous nu-merous testa of the load which the aerae horse could pull in contin-