The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-07-22

At length he allowed me to work his ma
chinery myself, and I found | could DO
as he did ; and the machinery for pro
ducing the vapor is so simple that a child
eight years old could work it.
Deception was impossible under such
circumstances. Some Of the articles that
have appeared in relation to the Keely
motor being based, as all these articles
have been, on the reports and statements
of thee who know nothing about the
matter, have contained the most absurd
statements. 1t has been asserted that we
do not know the difference between press
uSe and power; that we claim TO have a
perpetual motion machine; that we pre-
tend to be able to make something out of
nothing, and many similar things are put
forth by persons who ought to know
better than to assert such things in rela-
ton to the men who are connected with
the Keely motor. The assertion that |
do not know the difference between press
ure and power is sufficiently answered by
the reputation of the firm of which Z am
member. 1t is not likely that we could
have obtained that reputation if We were
so ignorant of the very principles involv-
ed in the work we do. A perpetual-mo-
ton machine is one that makes its own
power. One that does not make its own
power cannot be perpetual-motion ma
chine. Now, Keely pretends to do no
such thing as that On the contrary,
Mr.. Keely's claim is entirely different.
He claims to produce from the consump-
tion of air and water cold vapor capa-
BILE of condensation by simple expansion
and which contains power enough to
produce pressure of 10000 or 10000
bounds to the square inch. 1t is admit
ted that no cold vapor capable of con-
densation by simple expansion can be
produced by chemicals, but l know that
by Keely's method it can be produced,
for 1 have produced it, and condensed it
in just that way, and drank the water
produced by the condensation. The pro-
fessor to whom I have alluded, when l
told him that I had drank the water so
produced, said, "Oh, you are deceived"
He thought that Keely had substituted
the water which had drank in surrep-
titious manner. I went back to Keely
and tried it again to be sure that l had
not been deceived in that manner, and l
convinced myself that l had not. AS to
the idea that Keely claims to produce
something from nothing it is absurd, for
that is Just what he does not claim to do.
He claims to have
DISCOVERED ONE OF THE LAWS OF Ma
bv which this vapor can be produced.
When I talk to the scientists about a
pressure of 10000 pounds to the square
inch they are incredulous, but l have
seen it at $500, and have weighed it,
so that know there is no mistake. We
are now having a guage made by which
we can weigh it up to $4,000 pounds.
One of the difficulties in our way has
been that we have not yet handled the
thing at the great pressures at which
it can be used. 1t takes time to make all
the experiments needed, and, although
we are pursuing them as rapidly as possi-
BILE, we cannot do everything in day.
We have used it up to 16,5OO pounds
pressure, and are going on as fast as we
can. There is one hindrance. We do
not know what we can cover with our
letters patent. We cannot, of course,
cover a natural law by patent, and
what we can cover we must describe SO
fully that any person expert in such mat
ters can do the same thing from our de-
scription in order that he may know when
and how he infringes on our patents.
This we have not yet been able to 90,
because we have not yet used it at the
heavy pressures at which it can be used.
We know that it will produce
TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY TIMES THE
PRESSURE THAT STEAM WILL,
and in order to control this agency we
must have engines of Austrian gum
metal. The engine we use is regular
yacht engine, with a pair of three by
three cylinders, and capable OF working
under a pressure of from 500 to 1000
pounds to the inch on the piston, but the
engine we are constructing will be capa-
BILE of working under the tremendous
pressure which we shall produce.
1t has been asked how we will harness
such tremendous power. We will do it
with gun metal, and in such way that
will be safe. In making guns, such ex-
actness is possible that they are able to
tell how many times the gun can be fired
before it will burst, and the bursting
comes, not from the force of the explo-
sion itself, but from the unequal strain
produced by the burning OF powder.
This element of destruction we DO not
have to contend with, because our press
ure is even, and with machinery made on
scientific principles there will be no dan
ger or possibility of an explosion. But
even if there should be an explosion,
which could only come from some defect
in construction, there would be no dan
ger, excepting from some flying piece,
which might do damage, of course. In
explosion of steam boiler the destruc-
ton is caused by the sudden and marvel
Gus increase of pressure which occurs at
the moment of explosion. This is not
understood scientifically, but the fact re-
mains that when boiler explodes under
a pressure of thirty or forty pounds, at
the instant of the explosion there will be
a pressure of 10000 pounds on the sud
den liberation of the steam, and it is this
which causes the damage which results.
Now, with the Keely motor, it is entire
ly different. Supposing there should be,
from some defect in the machinery, an
explosion, aud the motor suddenly libe-
rated. BY it's expansion it would be con.
dcnsed to water, and no damage would
be done.
The Keely motor not only will do the