Power
Resources
- animals
- DPIV measurements of dolphins performing tailstands, 61st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 2008
- Gray's Paradox Solved: Researchers Discover Secret of Speedy Dolphins (video), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, November 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 (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 (May 1934).
- Horsepower from a horse. R.D. Stevenson & Richard J. Wassersug. Nature. Vol. 364 (15 July 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 (1 June 1998).
- James Watt and the Revolution of Horsepower. Abby Gibbon. The Chronicle of the Horse (18 August 2011). A nicely written essay.
- Grace's Guide: 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, 14 June 2005
- "Top Secret" Technology to Help US Swimmers Trim Times at Beijing Olympics, (video), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, August 2008
- A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy, and the Mechanical Arts, Volume I. Thomas Young. Bedfordbury (London): William Savage (1807).
- machines
- Petawatt Laser, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, December 1996.
- Terex Construction Americas. Specifications on the most powerful trucks in production.