Power

Resources

• animals
  • DPIV measurements of dolphins performing tailstands, 61st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (2008).
  • 'Gray's Paradox' Solved: Researchers Discover Secret of Speedy Dolphins, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2008).
• horsepower
  • Account of Steam Engines—from a Treatise on Mechanics Theoretical, Practical and Descriptive. Olinthus Gregory. Edinburgh Review. Vol. 13 No. 26 (1800): 311–333. First appearance of the definition of the horsepower in print. Although the author never uses the word "horsepower" per se.
  • Testing Draft Horses. A.B. Caine and E.V. Collins. Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station Research Bulletin: Volume 20, Issue 240 (1926).
  • Growth and development with special reference to domestic animals XXXIII: Efficiency of work horses of different ages and body weights. Robert C. Procter, Samuel Brody, Mack M. Jones, D.W. Chittenden. Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station Research Bulletin 209 (1934).
  • Horsepower from a horse. R.D. Stevenson & Richard J. Wassersug. Nature. Vol. 364 (1993): 195.
  • Force, speed, and oxygen consumption in Thoroughbred and draft horses. U. Silke Birlenbach Potard, David E. Leith, M. Roger Fedde. Journal of Applied Physiology. Vol. 84 No. 2052–2059 (1998).
  • James Watt and the Revolution of Horsepower. Abby Gibbon. The Chronicle of the Horse (2011). A nicely written essay.
  • How Much Horsepower is a Horse? Donut Media. YouTube (2023).
  • Grace's Guide to British Industrial History (timelines and photographs)
    • James Watt
    • Matthew Boulton
    • Boulton & Watt (the company)
    • Whitbread (the brewery)
• humans
  • How Lance Armstrong Gets His Unusual Energy. Sandra Blakeslee. New York Times (2005).
  • 'Top Secret' Technology to Help US Swimmers Trim Times at Beijing Olympics. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2008).
  • A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy, and the Mechanical Arts, Volume I. Thomas Young. Bedfordbury (London): William Savage (1807).
• machines
  • Petawatt laser
    • Crossign the Petawatt threshold. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Science and Technology Review  (1996).
    • The Amazing Power of the Petawatt. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Science and Technology Review  (1996).