Mr Ed

[Todd King]

  <<<
  For trivia's sake: who decided that 550ft-lb/sec roughly approximated what
  a horse is capable of?  What foul machine produced this?  Did some crazy
  guy give Mr. Ed a big torque wrench and have him spin a few cycles with
  it on some sort of active resistance machine?
  >>>
  
  Actually they had Ed do a few reps while strapped into an early 4 legged 
  nautilus machine, until he said "Iiiiii'mmmm tiiirredd, Wiiiilllbbbuurrr!"; 
  that then became the standard unit of power.
  :-)
  
  Todd  Todd_King at ccm.co.intel.com
  
  PS Watch for the "Mr Ed Workout Video", endorsed by Kathie Lee...