There are four motors, two to each truck, each rated at 360 horse power.
We could get even more than 7 horse power out of this machine, by either running it at an excessive speed, or by using excessive currents; in both cases, however, we should shorten the life of the apparatus.
We might as well dream of getting 5 horse power out of a steam engine for one pound of coal per hour.
Should mankind be seized with a sudden desire to replace all the locomotives in the world by horse power it would be utterly impossible to do it.
Not only has the railway superseded horse power in the matter of transportation to a vast extent, but other modes of transportation are taking the place of that useful animal.
Horse power is the unit of such measurement, and it consists of the amount of power that is required to raise one pound through a vertical distance of one foot.
It is desirable to establish the relation between watts and foot pounds in order to determine the capacity of an electric generator or motor in terms of horse power.
To send a boy back to school on a two-horse power, which consumed seven hours in covering forty-four miles, seems rather like "adding insult to injury.
Winter use the electric light for enlarging, a lamp of Siemens' driven by a six-horse power engine.
The generator was vitalized by an engine rated by the attendants in charge at 6-horse power.
In 1804 he constructed at Philadelphia a second engine of five-horse power, working on the high-pressure principle, which was placed on a large flat or scow, mounted upon wheels.
To relay the road of sufficient strength would have involved a heavy outlay, which the owners were unwilling to incur, not yet perceiving the advantage, in an economical point of view, of employing engine in lieu of horse power.
This is driven by a motor of about 1/7 horse power, which also drives, through the gears shown, the sprocket pulley E.
For a furnace of the largest size, the force expended by this lifting apparatus, is not more than a two-horse power.
In a second set of experiments, the extremity of the stop-cock was inserted into a hole, bored through the chimney stalk of the boiler of a Boulton and Watt steam-engine of twenty-horse power.
The results thus obtained were so satisfactory that the designs were prepared for the great compressors to be operated at the new central station on the Quai de la Gare by the 2,000 horse power engines.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "horse power" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
