The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-06-24
THE COLD-WATER ENGINE.
The Wonderful Invention Of Phil
adelphia Mechanical Snbsti-
tute for Steam.


any other known motive power.
The speakers tone was one Of profound
conviction. and there were no symptoms
insanity in his face. [ had known him
for 4 long time rs man. who attended
to his business, paid his debts, was OPP
posed to the third term, and gave other
evidences OF sanity.
stWell. what is TO haul the train q L
asked, incredulously.
''The wonderful new motor" he re-
piled "a little machine that needs only
!. small supply of water and air. About
Il bucketful of water viii be enough to
run to New York.
.'And the fuel -
.sThare is no fnel-absoiutely nothing
but the water, the air, and the little
machine.
[ remembered vaguely having read
something about this invention last
summer, and having wondered how some
poor, half-cracked inventor had got a
newspaper to unfold his wild fancies.
Since then had heard it talked about
occasionally during the winter by people
who had only hearsay information. My
friend was so enthusiastic that [ promised
TO look into the matter. Whereupon he
said that It could not be looked into yet,
everything connected with the invention
being kept profound secret from every
body except few capitalists, who had
furnished the money to develop it, and
two or three experts who had been en-
pIoved by them to examine and report
npon the machine A few days after
this conversation an insurance agent
brought in an equally extravagant tale
of the new motor. He had seen it work.
and owned some stock in it, which was
not for sale at any price. Now it is hard
to get the start of an insurance agent IN
a bargain, and the fact that this gentle
man had invested money in the machine
gave it certain claim to respect. The
claim was enhanced, when L met the in
ventor, who drove his own carriage, and
looked In every way sane and solvent.
Obviously the new motor, whatever it
might be, had propelled him into very
comfortable circumstances. He used to
live in a back street, it is said, and tin
kered away at his machine for IA years
before he got it to work, fighting off
poverty the while as best he could.
With curiosity stimulated by the eng
matical talk OF the inventor and the mar
yelous stories of his friends, 1 set about
tlhti oCtoOSAANA 49,
facts about the machine, with such re-
suits as appear below.
The inventors name is John w.
Kelley, and he calls his invention the
s.Keeley Motor" It is owned by a stock
company composed chiefly of New York
and Philadelphia capitalists, who have
paid in working capital of about $3.50
900 and hold stock of the nominal par
value of 81, OO0,0 They value this
stock at fabulous prices. The original
associates of Mr.. Kelley, who are all
members of the present company, are
J. S. Yarnell, J. Stifts, G. B. COLLAR,
and VIM. Boekel, of this city, and G.
B. Till, of Morristswn, Nj. The APP
paratus that generates the power is
called multiplication, and is COM
posed OF number of iron chambers of
cylindrical form, connected by pipes
and fitted with certain cocks and valves.
The machine upon which experiments
have been conducted during the past
eight months is about Sc inches high,
"a long and ID wide, and its cylinders
viii hold about six gallons of water. A
small brass pipe, with an orifice one
quarter of an inch III diameter, leads
from it to strong wrought-iron reser-
feet long, where the power is stored,
and whence it is fed to a beam engine
through still smaller pipe. The pro
cess of generating the power consists in
forcing air into the upper chamber OF
the multiplication. and afterward letting
water run in from hydrant until the re-
ceptacles are nearly filed. In the ex-
periments lately made the inventor has
used his own lungs for an air pump,
blowing through tube for few sec
onds, then turning cock to shut off the
air, connecting the tube with the by
drant, and opening the cock until suffi-
cient water runs in. Within two min
utes after this operation is performed
the cocks on the tubes connecting the
upper with the lower cylinders are
turned and the power is ready for use.
The little machine exerts through the
small tube, one-eighth of an inch in di-
ameter, pressure varying from 1000 to
10, 900 pounds to the square inch, at the
will of the operator The power is ac-
crrately measured by force register.
When applied to the engine it runs it as
rapidly as it is prudent to permit, the
supply of power being always kept below
its full capacity.
y
by those interested in probing the mys
terry, to see if there was not some tricl
of concealed chemicals to generate gas
The multiplication has been suspended
from the rafters of the building and all
blown through it, and it has been flood
ed repeatedly with water to dissolve am
chemical compound it might hold con
cealed. Immediately after these test.
ba In hon,s cra,,A5.a{nl oct fol
an elaborate series of experiments wert
conducted by Chief Engineer Rutherford
of the United States navy, j. Snowder
Bell, mechanical engineer ; VIM. Boo
kel, mechanician, and Chas. II. Collier
a lawyer of this city, and the result,
were printed in pamphlet form for tn,
private information of the stock holders
Besides the air and water tests they ex-
amined the escape from the valves, an(
found it to be ''vaporic or gaseou:
production" without smell or taste, an(
with no explosive or intianlmable prop
critics when exposed to fame. WheI
a piece OF muslin cloth was held over the
escape, an icicle of the shape of thin
bic was rapidly formed. The investiga
tors also tasted the water which had beer
nsed in the multiplication, and discover
cd no unusual flavor or odor, and tool
the machine to pieces without finding
any residum.
What, then, is this strange power,
capable of doing the work of steam
without heat? The inventor talks about
the multiplied power of hydraulic col
umns held in suspension, but gives nc
further explanation of the manner by
which pressure of 26 pounds to thu
inch, which the Schuylhill water has in
the hydrant, is increased to $4,000
pounds by merely passing through his
iron cylinders. Il is his secret, he says
and he will reveal it as his patents in
this country and in England are ISSUED.
One Of the principal owners OF the IN