Any power which can do 550 foot pounds of work per second is said to be one horse power (H.
As determined by Joule, heat energy has a certain definite relation to work, one British thermal unit being equivalent from his determinations to 772 foot pounds.
Rowland, a later investigator, found that 778 foot pounds were a more exact equivalent.
This law, algebraically expressed, is W = JH; W being the work done in foot pounds, H being the heat in B.
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