HORSEPOWER
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✎ Suggest a correctionHow the term "horsepower" originated, and how it applies to the automobile. Goes back to the days of James Watt when in 1769 he conducted a series of experiments to show just how much weight a horse could be expected to lift in a given length of time. Feature by feature, part by part, cylinder by cylinder the film shows how the horsepower of automobile engines has been increased.
Complete catalog record
Dewey number: 621
Audience level: jh-sh-adult
Format/cost: 16-sd-$36
Distributors / rental: University of Illinois $1; Visual Education, Inc (Texas)
Audience level: jh-sh-adult
Format/cost: 16-sd-$36
Distributors / rental: University of Illinois $1; Visual Education, Inc (Texas)
Sources
- Educational Film Guide 1946 — title, year, creator, length, format, sound, description, catalog record
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