Show horse power machine persona person s who claim to feel as strong as a horse who enjoy the opportunity to put their strength to a cal test will be interested to know that a device known as aa the hi gauges the strength of human beings in terms of horse power has been perfected it consists of a bicycle transmission and a hand wheel geared to a cylinder which offers resistance to the motion of transmission the person being tested Is required to maintain the velocity of the resisting cylinder at a predetermined num tier ber ot of revolutions per minute when the machine Is in motion a weight brake Is gradually applied until the revolutions fall below a given standard the weight upon a scale beam on which the horse power Is the unit of measure washington star |