Horsepower: The Measure of Machines
Horsepower's a way to measure power. The more of it, the more powerful a vehicle is. It's said to have been invented by a man known as James Watt. James Watt is known as an engineer who improved the performance of steam engines.
It is thought that he came up with the term horsepower as he worked with the ponies that lifted coal at a coal mine. He thought that he could use this as a way to measure the power in his steam engine and it stuck. We still use the term today to describe how powerful…