Undertaking the full circle : the working horse's utility in the first half of the twentieth century (2022)
Luise Elsässer (Author)
Ferrum
Volume: 92
Pages: 92-100
Publication date: 2022
Language: English
Edition Details: Issue Theme: Raw Materials: Natural Resources in History
The use of horsepower remained a significant energy source for Western European economies until the 1950s. Horsepower was needed for everything and by everybody in one way or another. If working horses were an industrial and agricultural energy source of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, then the horses' carcasses were its by-product. The end of a working horse's life eventually brought usage full circle, as the remains were fed back into economic circulation. This paper looks at the different uses of horsepower and its disappearance, using the example of England. The use of horsepower was socially and culturally coded, while the animals served as raw material, commodity, working power, and food, from its breeding to its disposal.
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