River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-07-02
sometime afterward, until it stopped
its own accord.
WONDERFUL INVENTION.

sides man of singularly inventive gen.
ius, who has been for years Of patitnt
toll and study in the endeavor to dis
cover substitute for steam. Born in
Chester county, Pennsylvania, Mr.. Kelly
is by profession machinist. Physically
he is perfect Vulcan: mentally, his
genius is more than substitute for a
liberal education. For years Mr.. Kelly
has been endeayoring to discover in The
works Of nature hidden power or motor,
and the result of his laboTs, should its
practical and permanent success be equal
to its present promise, must certainly be
regarded as one of the most wonderful
achievements of the age. The CORES
pendent Of the Leader has seen this en-
CINE in operation. 1t is propelled BY a
heretofore unknown yapor Of immense
pressure, created from small quantity
Of water, with a certain admixture Of
air. This vapor is purely produced by
mechanical means, without any chemi-
Gals whatever, without the aid Of galvan-
ism or electricity, without heat, and
without cost, aside from wear Of ma.
chinery and expense Of an engineer.
Mr.. Keely has for years been inbued
with the belief that motor was hidden
somewhere which could be utilized in the
place Of steam, with comparatively little
cost. He started out by underwriting to
use the pressure Of atmosphere as mo-
tor, and his first construction to that end
was an air engine which proved entirely
satisfactory. The piston-rod Of this en-
CINE was fastened by circular metal
plate to an lndia-rubber diaphragm on
the top Of the cylinder. BY some mys-
FERROUS arrangement the air is exhausted.
and vacuum formed which compels the
diaphragm to bulge inward several inches.
When the air is let in the diaphragm
bulges outward, in that way working
backward and forward several hundred
times a minute, making that number of
revolutions in the engine. How he man.
aged to make fifteen-pound pressure of
the atmosphere do more than overcome
an opposing equal pressure Of the same
atmosphere is mystery. He did it,
however, without the aid of electricity,
galvanism, or heat, simply with the as
sistance of a minute quantity of water.
The engine seems to have been propelled
somewhat on the principle Of an
hydraulic ram, and Mr.. Kelly sue.
ceeded in making it work purely
by atmospheric pressure, without
electrical or chemical aid, or without
heat. The models of this air engine oc.
cupied space less than a cubic foot, and
made 800 revolutions minute with such
force that the strongest man, with his
hands encased in pair of gloves, could
not stop it by holding on to the fly wheel.
The objection to this engine as it was
then constructed was the necessity for
using an india rubber diaphragm, which
would make it impracticable for large
engines. While experimenting upon and
endeavoring to do away with the use Of
the diaphragm, Mr.. Kelly accidentally
discovered another motor-a new and
heretofore unknown vapor. He saw that
this vapor could be compressed and made
to give almost an unlimited amount of
pressure, and that it could be made to
propel an engine precisely as a steam en-
CINE is propelled.
Mr.. Kelly then set to work to construct
a mechanical apparatus to produce this
vapor, and, after vast amount of ex-
perimenting, has succeeded almost beyond
his expectations. The apparatus is cal
led generator" or ''multiplicator. 1t
is about three feet high, two feet long,
and thirteen inches deep, made of glass
and wrought iron in heavy and strong
manner, the whole of which con.
sists of series of iron chambers,
cylindrical in form, connected by pipes fur
nished with various cocks and valves.
The multiplication was suspended from
the ceiling by chain. three feet above
the floor, showing it to be entirely discon.
nected with anything else, excepting the
pipe connecting it with the receiver"
The vapor generated is conveyed to the
receiver. and from the receiver it is con-
veyed by "feed pipe" to the engine.
The receiver is made out Of wrought iron
two inches thick; capacity about twenty
gallons and shaped like soda fountain.
The popularity Of this receiver is, it is
made of wrought iron, without a rivet,
and entirely welded. The question is,
how could receiver, shaped like a soda
fountain, be made Of wrought iron, en-.
tirely welded without an anvil inside and
without a rivet!
The popularity Of this vapor is that it
can only be used to the best advantage
at pressure of 10000 to 10000 pounds
to the square inch The most extraord.
mary thing is that Mr.. Kelly is enabled
to control his vapor at that immense
pressure, and run his engine with pre-.
cisely the same ease at which the ordinary
steam engine is run.
1t is well known that the weakest point
in boiler is where it is rivited. If
boiler could be made entirely Of welded
iron without riyets, it would be one.third
stronger. The smaller the boiler the
stronger it is. A boiler twenty.four
inches in diameter will stand twice the
pressure that boiler forty eight inches
in diameter can Of the same thickness Of
iron, or three times the pressure that a
boiler seyenty-two inches in diameter
can. Consequently, ''receiver" Of only
about fourteen inches in diameter must
be so much stronger IN proportion than
the large sized boiler. The "receiyer"
preserves an equal temperature,and is not
exposed to any Of the difficulties that the
steam boiler is--it being constantly
filled with a cool, dry and clean vapor.
This alone gives the receiver at least