The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-12-08
A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.

STEAM NO LoNGER AS A
MOTIVE PowER-TwoG GALLONS WILL CARRY
A TRAIN TO SAN FRANCISCO AND RETURN
AN PRESSURE w
The Philadelphia correspondent of the
New York Graphic describes a machine in
process of construction in that city which, if
the claims of its inventor, John w. Kelley,
prove to be within the bounds of its capa-
bilities, will awaken the interest of every
civilized creature upon the globe, and mark a
new epoch in human progress. 1t has been
constructed at considerable * pense, and
after nearly fourteen years of repeated trial
and failure. This machine is nothing less
than a contrivance for the application of an
alleged new motor-a new principal of mo-
tive power as far superior to steam as steam
was superior to wind and water power.
What this principle is as yet re-
mains a secret known only to the in
ventor, and as such would naturally be en-
titled to all the i~ncredulity that has in
variably attached TO exorbitant claims of a
similar character. There are, however, GER
tain statements made concerning il which
will soon be easily susceptible of proof
or disproof, as well as certain names con-
nected with it that will compel the respect
full consideration of the public. A
number of gentlemen in Philadelphia and
in Worcester a contributed mon ey to
further the construction of the machine,
and in New York John J. Cisco, Israel Corse,
- Hatch, of the firm of Fisk & Hatch. and
others are said to AVE advanced considerable
sums of money on condition of receiving
the exclusive right to dispose of
the machine in certain prescribed terri
tories. The new apparatus is in the house
of the inventor, John w. Kelley, No. 1910
Master street. 1t is so near completed to his
satisfaction that a model for deposit in the
patent Office at Washington has been begun,
and will soon be finished. But the most
marvellous statement is yet to be made.
Mr.. Kelley claims that In the machine now
at his residence he has developed
THE PRESSURE
of Z, 900 pounds to the square inch. When
it is remembered that steam boilers are only
subjected to strain of from thirty to per-
haps two hundred pounds per square inch,
according to the purposes fer which they
are constructed, a proper sense of
this leap upward to 1000 pounds
will be realized. With this power
at his command, unencumbered with a cor
responding cost and weight of metal. mans
complete conquest over nature would seem
to be a thing of the near future. Mr.. Kee-
ley asserts that with only two gallons OF wa
ter he would be able to draw a
train of cars from Philadelphia to- San
Francisco and back again. The water, it
is stated by a friend of Mr.. Kelley, would
be used over and over, something as steam
is utilized in a condensing engine. Incredi-
BILE as this claim is the inventor further de-
clares that he obtains thisv vast power with
out the use of fuel, without the use of chemi-
Gals of any kind, and without the use of
electricity or magnetic currents. A conclu-
sion naturally arrived at when it is stated
that no fuel is used is that the power is
obtained by the decol position of the
water and the rapid Disagreement of
hydrogen and oxygen, or OF both these
gases. The assertion that no chemicals or
electrical currents are used is supposed to
be made to overthrow this inference. The
use OF force derived from the evolution of
that the consumption of the necessary chem
ical substances has been found to be more
costly than the consumption of coal IN gen.
Grating an equal amount OF force by means
of steam.