I am going to rely on Dr. Desmond Morris, my favourite source of information with respect to the relationship between animals and people, to answer the question. In his book Horse Watching he comes to the conclusion that the earliest stirrup was “a looped rope …
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One horsepower is the force needed to move 33,000 pounds a foot in a minute. The Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist, who decided this was James Watt. He wanted to make the power of steam engines more understandable. He lived (1736-1819) in a time …
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