Re: Horse power in the old steam engines

Posted by Red Dave on August 22, 2005 at 17:10:48 from (209.86.79.109):

In Reply to: Horse power in the old steam engines posted by Charlie M on August 22, 2005 at 13:38:40:

Horsepower is measurment of the ability to do a specified amount of work over a given amount of time. Same work in half the time requires twice the horsepower.

The steam traction engines pull a lot of plows, but they pull them fairly slowly in comparison to a modern gasoline or diesel tractor. They have a lot of pulling power (work), but can't pull them very fast (time).

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