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Meanings of horse-power in English

Russian
лошадиная сила
Spanish
caballo de fuerza

Unit of power in the Imperial system of units (745.69987 W)

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        Usage of horse-power in English
        1
        The cost of the pumping plants complete per horse-power is as follows:
        The Water Supply of the El Paso and Southwestern Railway from Ca...
        2
        It is used to generate thousands of horse-power in great electrical installations.
        The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) / A Plain Story Simply Tol...
        3
        The power required to drive the Thwaite-Denny furnace is four indicated horse-power.
        Getting Gold: A Practical Treatise for Prospectors, Miners and S...
        4
        The Broadway plant of General Electric, downtown, makes transformers & fractional-horse-power motors.
        The new yorker
        5
        Two two-bladed propellers were driven by an eight-cylinder 50 horse-power Antoinette motor.
        A History of Aeronautics
        6
        But the total energy received would be equivalent to producing 300 horse-power.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881
        7
        It was his experience that a sixty-horse-power racing-machine is a jealous mistress.
        The Lost Road
        8
        A 35 horse-power Green engine drove two wooden two-bladed propellers by chains.
        British Airships, Past, Present, and Future
        9
        We estimate the unused power in tens and tens of millions of horse-power.
        The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political
        10
        A rough estimate of the horse-power represented by the falls is fourteen million.
        Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wa...
        11
        The steam-heating of the building is supplied by four one hundred horse-power boilers.
        Russell H. Conwell, Founder of the Institutional Church in Ameri...
        12
        For he thought of the horses that made the horse-power go.
        The Tale of Frisky Squirrel
        13
        My eighty-horse-power Daimler is at the door and at your service.
        The Illustrious Prince
        14
        Steam used in court, obtained from twenty horse-power boiler under tower.
        The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts an...
        15
        It is powered by six gas turbine engines which combined generate 800 horse-power.
        Reuters
        16
        The British are now constructing a super-triplane fitted with six 500 horse-power engines.
        Public Speaking