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72 points

Fun fact, they short changed the horse:

Over a short period of time, they calculate, a horse can exert up to 14.9 horsepower.

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Wasn’t horse power intended to represent the average energy output of a horse over a working day, rather than a brief maximum?

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Yes, it was.

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