In France, 20th century, a unit of power legalized in 1919, the power required to move a 100-kilogram mass over a distance of 1 meter in 1 second, at an acceleration of 1 meter per second per second. One poncelet is approximately 980.665 watts.
The unit is named for J. V. Poncelet (1788-1867).
United Nations, 1966.
Latimer Clark.
A Dictionary of Metric and Other Useful Measures.
London: E & F.N. Spon, 1891.
Page 73.
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