HORSE-POWER.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 67, 21 June 1912, Page 3

HORSE-POWER.

In connection with «tf:>!ir<l"i» j-rimil-sioh, the average man is apt !;< .s;><ak very glihly of so niauy huicJirtJ or thousand horse-power. I'ut it is- flKtr»inely doiilxful il' oi:i> jmt.soh in v hundred n-nll.y lim a dim a|)|>woiaiion of what lln> phi a* , actually iihmiis. On this pfiinl. Miiw- very interesting remarks were reeeii'lv ni'ule liy Jollll H<"Cl{, v (-11-iil! ,, '. , !' Mill"I'ovor. He s.iid that, f:i!fiM::l t.lic si of ] i 2 !iien t<i he ('uml one lioi-«>-|)()wer, il would rriiuin? 810,(*00 teen Id procure 'invli enfiL , ; 1 . , us lii« 70,01)1) Ixirse-ixnver d<w<-loptMi l).y tlte ti!r!)iiu> inaehiiiery of the cspress (Ilinar(!."r Liisit;ini;i. 'I'lu'ii, if the ii.en w< , r« to work on tin* eiiilit-lionr day (Ik'so wan!.! ifjvis a total of that hoinu the tiiimh«r of v.-hoti- would he nt'ce-miry Ut drivo Iho vessel across t!;o Atlnnt.if Oe.Mi). So it ivould lake all tho tiu-'i 'II ,"4<'ntl,ilKl to stlpplv (he one-r;y protdu'i'il nil tlu; diiv KKiiid by t»«• «•(»/»- derfiil Uirhiiie murhinery oi' t!:i> Z'-'il riJl/jl.