Horespower and watts?

Question

Explain the relationship between the watt and the standard horsepower.

Any help appreciated!

Answer 1

James Watt developed the term horsepower in 1782.

1 HP = 746 watts.

The term horsepower was invented by the engineer James Watt in 1782. Watt lived from 1736 to 1819 and is most famous for his work on improving the performance of steam engines.

Watt was working with ponies lifting coal at a coal mine, and he wanted a way to talk about the power available from one of these animals. He found that, on average, a mine pony could do 22,000-foot-pounds (lift a bucket of coal weighing 22,000 lbs a distance of 1-foot) of work in a minute. He then increased that number by 50 percent and fixed the measurement of horsepower at 33,000-foot-pounds of work in one minute.

Under this system, one horsepower is defined as:

1 hp = 33,000 ft·pound-force·min−1 = exactly 745.69987158227022 W

Answer 2

A watt is a unit of power like horsepower is.
1 horsepower=745.7 watts

Answer 3

1 horsepower = 746 watts

Answer 4

1 horsepower=746 watts
Watts into Horsepower= Watts x 0.00134
Horsepower into Watts= Horsepower x 746





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Answer 5

1 horsepower=746watts