horsepower: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: Livescience - Why do we still measure things in horsepower? Dec 26, 2025
Add new Web site: Workforce LibreTexts - Horsepower and Efficiency. Sep 11, 2025
Add new Web site: University of Georgia Extension - Force, Speed, and Horsepower (PDF). Jul 05, 2025
Add new Web site: University of Toronto - Department of Physics - About the Horsepower of an Engine. Aug 13, 2024
Add new Web site: NM State - Cooperative Extension Service Publications - Origin of the Horsepower Unit (PDF). May 23, 2023
Add new Web site: Livescience - Why do we still measure things in horsepower? Sep 08, 2022
Add new Web site: University of Houston - Engines of Our Ingenuity - Horsepower. May 30, 2022
Corrected display issue. Aug 28, 2019
Add new Web site: Energy Education - Horsepower. Aug 20, 2019
Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Horsepower. May 21, 2013
Article revised. Apr 29, 2004
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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