The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-07-30
GeeIY Motor.

The Scientific American contin-
mes its war upon the .Keely Motor
power, which has attracted consid-
cradle attention of late. The Scien-
tific American is about the best au-
thority in this country on such sub
jects. We quote an article below
from the last number.
THE KELLY Moron DECEPTIoN.-
We continue to receive hundreds OF
newspapers from all parts of the
country, containing the most full
some endorsements of this most
puerile deception. Nothing more
lamentably exhibits the general lack,
in this country, of elementary scien-
tific education, than the editorial
comments npon this subject by
many of the papers. With very
few exceptions, the writer's are una
bic to perceive why the Keely CHI
mera may not be true, the general
line of argument aud Thoughts being
that, inasmueh Is moders discovery
has heretofore revealed and pro-
duced inventions quito as startling
as anything assumed by Keeiy and
his abettors, therefore il MAY be that
what he claims is well founded !;
and II Is unwisc, imprudent, to
throw doubts upon his statements,
especially when they are so thor
oughly supported by other persons
OF reputed Intelligence and veracity.
To all OF which IL is n sufficient re-
ply to say that any inventor who
pretends TO get something out of
nothing, or to produce more force
or more substance out of a given
quantity of materials than they pos
sess, Is deceiver, no matter how
manV respectable people join hands,
like the Keelyites,to support the de-
ception.
"People," says Kelly, "haye no
Idea of the power in water, / mean
that can be drawn out of il. pur-
pose to run a train of thirty cars
from Philadelphia to New York at
the rate of mile a minute, out OF
as much water as you can hold IN
the palm of your hand"
Both of these statements are in-
cOrrecL. Estimating approximately,
the power in water, or the power
that il can be made to furnish,
whether In liquid or vapOric form,
Is perfectly we'll known. Four
thousand gallons of water, falling
one foot in q minute, furnish one
horse power. One sixteenth of a
horse power is furnished by one
cubic inch of water, il converted in
TO Vapor at the ordinary atmosphere
ic pressure. To run a train of thir-
ty cars from Philadelphia to New
York, at the velocity of sixty miles
per hour, would require not far
from two hundred barrels OF water
and over two tons of coal.
These arc among tho elementary
facts pertaining to motive engineer.
ing, which no Keelyite can set aside
and which, IL they were kept III
mind by editors would enable them
to perceive at glance the gross.
ness of the present deception.
In further illustration Of the need
of better educational training among
our business men, as a protection
against stock. Jobbing deception
wrought and lnaintained IN thG
name OF Schemes, we give In anOth
er column a few gems from thu
most recent declarations of Kelly
These were recently made TO thu
correspondent and reporter of tn,
Inter-Ocean. We also give extract
from the statements of some OF Kee
ly's chief assistants, showing tn
rise, progress, and management o
the deception. The price of tn
Keely stock, which at one time wa
very high, is beginning to ebb, an,
In q short time all the beautiful,
engraved stock certificates will fint
their way into the cellars of the raI
and paper dealers.