The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-06-12
A yeu Motor" somebody Secret" a
Substitute for Steam.

cars drawn from Philadelphia to New York
without steam, electricity, hot air, or any
other known motive power"
The speakers tone was one OF profound
conviction, and there were no symptoms OF
insanity in his face. | had known him for a
long time as q man who attended to his blu
siness, paid bis debts, was opposed to the
third term, and gave other evidences Of
sanity.
"Well. what is to haul the train?" asked
incredulously.
"The wonderful new motor" he replied
ga little machine that needs only small sup
ply of water and air. About bnckctful OF
water will be enough to run to New York =
"Apd the fucl!"
There is no fuel-absolutely nothing
but the water, the air, and the little ma.
chine"
remembered vaguely having read some.
thing about this invention last summer, and
having wondered how some poor, half
cracked inventor bad got newspaper to I'm.
fold his wild fancies. Since then bad heard
it talked about occasionally during the Win
ter by people who bad only hearsay iniorma
ton. Ny friend was so enthusiastic that
promised TO look into the matter. Where
npon he said that it could not be looked into
vet, everything connected with tic Invention
being KEEP, profound secret from every.
body except few capitalists, who mao
furnished the money TO develop it, and two
or three experts who had been employed by
them 10 examine and report upon the ma
chine. A few days after this conversation
an insurance agent brought in an equally
extravagant tale of the new motor. He bad
seen it work, and owned some stock ia 1t,
which was not for sale at any price. Now,
it is hard to get the start of an insurance
agent in q bargain, and the fact that this gen.
feruan had invested money in the machine
-aye it ceIt tain claim to respect. The claim
was enhanced when met the inventor, who
drove bis own carriage, and looked in every
yay sane and solvent. Obviously the new
motor. Is whatever it might he, had propelled
him into very comfortable circumstances.
He used to live in back street, II is SAID,
and tinkered away at his machine for four
teen years before he got it to work, fighting
off poverty the while as best he could.
With couriosity stimulated by the enigmatl-
cal talk Of the inventor and the marvellous
stories OF his friends, set about picking up
and putting together the facts about the
machine, with such results as appear below.
The inventors name is John w. kceley,
and be calls bis invention the "keeley
Motor" It is owned by stock company
composed chiefly of New York and Phila-
delpbia capitalists, who have paid in work
ing capital of about S150,O00 and hold stock
O! the nominal par value OF Sl,0O0,00 Ihey
value this stock at fabulous prices. The
original associates Of Mr.. Kelley, who are
all members of the present. company, are
James S. Yarnall, John Stiltz, Charles b.
Collier, j. W. Schuckers. and William
Boekel, of this city, and Charles B. Till, of
MorristowD, n. j. The apparatus that gene
rates the power is called multipllcator,"
and is composed of q number OF iron cham.
bers of cylindrical form, CONNECTED by pipes,
and fitted with certain cocks and valves.
The III thine upon which experiments have
been conducted during the past eight months
is about SO inches high, "a long. and IL vide,
and its c. finders will hold about six gallons
of water. A small brass pipe with an ORR
fee one. quarter Of an inch IN diameter
leads from it to strong Wrought.lron re.
servoir six inches in diameter and three
feet long, where the power is stored,
and whence it is fed to q beam engine
through still smaller pipe. Tue process OF
gene ating the power consists in forcing air
into the upper chamber of the multiplication,
and afterward letting water run in from a
hydrant until the rcceptacles are nearly
filled. In the experiments lately made the
inventor has used his own iungs for an air
pump, blowing through a tube for few
seconds, then turning u cock to Shut OF the
air, connecting the tube with the by
drant, and opening the cock until sufficient
water runs in. Within two minutes after
this operation is performed the cocks Oh the
tubes connecting the upper with the lower
cylinders are turned, aud the power is ready
for use. The little machine eXerls through
the small tube, one-cighth Of an inch in dia-
meter, pressure varying from 1000 to
10000 pounds to the square inch, at the will
Of the operator. The power is accurately
measured by force register. When applied
to the engine it runs it as rapidly as it is pru-
dent to permit, the supply OF power always
being kept below its full capacity.
Very thorough tests have been made by
those interested in probing the mystery to
see if there was not some trick Of concealed
chemicals TO generate gas. The multiplication
has been suspended from the rafters of the
building and air blown through it, and it has
been flooded repeatedly with water 10 dis.
solve any chemical compound it might hold
concealed. Immediately after these tests
the power has been generated. Last fall an
elaborate series Of experiments were con-
Quoted by Chief-Engineer Rutherford, of the
United States Navy j. Snowden Bell, a
mechanical engineer; William BoekeI, me.
chaniciap; and Charles u. Collier, law
yer Of this city, and the results were
printed in a pamphlet for the private in
formation of the stockholders. Besides the
air and water tests, they examined the escape
from the valves, and found il to be - vaporic
or gaseous production" without smell or
taste, and with no explosive or inflAmmable
properties when exposed to flame. When
piece Of muslin cloth was held over the
escape an icicle of the shape Of a thimbie
was rapidly formed. The investigators also
tasted the water which had been used in the
multiplication, and discovered no unusual
flavor or door, and took the machine to
pieces without finding any residuum.
What, then, is this strange power, capable
OF doing the work Of steam without heat
The inventor talks about the multipIied
power OF hydraulic columns held in sl,spen.
sion, out gives no further explanation OF the
manner by which pressure Of twenty-siX
POUNDS 10 The inch, which the Schuylkill
water bas In the hydrant, is increased TO
!o,oo0 pounds by merely passing through bis
iron cylinders. II Is his secret. he says, and
ne viii reveal 1t as soon as bis patents in this
country and in England are issued.
One of the principal owners of the in.
yention accounts for the strange force on
the superstition that the machine sepa-
rates water into its ultimate atoms, and
changes their cohesive force into one OF
strong repplsion. 1t is singular peculiarly
Of the force that when it is diminished much
below a pressure of 1920 pounds to the
square inch, it extiDguishes itself, ftdng
out aud leaving no sign. ME. Kelley Is now
engaged on q new and larger multiplication,
the parts OF which have been made in differ
ent machiDe.shops to preserve The secret of
its construction. II ia almost ready for use.