The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-07-07

ccivcd in this thing or that, would go bacl
to Mr.. Keeiy and watch and study his ope
| raions until knew was not deceived. a
| length he allowed me to work bis machinery
myself. aud I found could do as be did
and the machinery for producing this vapol
| is so simple that child eight years old coult
| work it. Deception was impossible under
such circumstances. ~ go ~
| Some of the articles that have appeared ir
| relation 10 the keely motor being based, a
all these articles have been, on the reports
aud statements of those who know nothing
about the matter, have contained the most
absurd statements. 1t has been asserted thai
| we do not know the difference between press
| ure and power; that we claim 10 have per.
| pe,ual. motion machine that we pretend IL
| be able to make something out OF nothing
land. many similar things are put forth by
persons who ought to know better than to
assert such things in relation to'the men who
are connected with the k"e'y motor. The
assertion that do not Know the difference
between pressure and power is sufficiently
answered by the reputation OF the firm o'
which am member. 1t is not likely that
we could have obtained that reputation If T;e
were so ignorant OF the very principles in
volyed in the work wedo. A perpetual.mo.
| tion machine is one that makes its own
| power. One that does not make its own
| power cannot be perpetual.motion mn.
| 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 consumption of air and
| water a cold vapor capable Of condensation
by simple expansion, and which contains
power enough to produce pressure OF 2O,-
n0n y,nY,.,Is n no inch If Is
admitted that no cold vapor capable Of con-
denSation by simple expansion can be pro-
duced by chemicals, but know that by
keelv's method it can be produced,
for ! have produced it, and condensed
it in Just that way, and have drank
the water produced by the condensation.
The professor to whom have alluded, when
told him that I had drank the water so pro-
duced said, "Oh, you are deceived" he
thought that Keely had substituted the water
which had drank in surreptitious man.
ner. ] went back to keely and tried it
again 10 be sure that had not been deceived
10 that manner, and convinced myself that
had not. AS to the idea that keely claims
TO produce something from nothing, it is ab-
surd, for that is just what he does not claim
to do. He claims t. have discovered one OF
The laws OF nature by which this rapor can
be produced.
When talk to the scientists about press
ure OF 10000 pounGs to the square lncn they
are incrcduiouS, but have seen it at 5000,
and have weighed it, so that know there
is 10 mistake. We are now having gauge
made by which we can weigh it up to 10000
pounds. One OF the difficulties in our way
has been that we have not yet handled the
thing at the great prasSureS at which IL can
be used. 1t taxes time TO make all the eXpe-
rmen,> needed, and, although we are pur.
suing them as rapidly as possible, we cannot
do everything in j day. We have used it up
TO 800 pounds pressure, aud are going
on as fast as we eau. There is one hlndrance.
We do not know what we can cover with
our letters patent. We cannot, of course,
cover natural law by patent, and
what we can cover we must describe
so fully that any person expert in such mat
tcrs can do the same thing from our descrip-
ton in order that he may know when and
how be infrlnges on our patents. IhiS We
have not yet been able TO do, because we
have not yet used it at the heavy pressures
a, which it can be used. We know that it
will produce go times the pressure that
steam will, and in order 10 control this
agency we must have engines Of Austrian
yacht engine, with pair OF by cylinders.
and capable of working under pressure of
from 800 to 1900 pounds 10 the inch on the
piston, but the engine we are constructing
will be capable Of working under the tire.
mendolls pressure which we shall produce.
| 1t has been asked how we will harness
such tremendous power. We will do it with
.un-metal. and in such Way that it will be
| sufc. In making guns such eXactneSs Is pos
| sibc that they are able to tell how many
| times the gun can be fired before il will burst,
and the bursting com,S not from the force OF
| the explosion itself, but from the unequal
strain produced by the burning OF powder.
This element Of destruction we do not nave
| to contend with, because our pressure Is even,
ana with machnery made on scientific prln-
cipleS there will be no danger or possibility
of explosion. But even if There should be
an explosion, which could only come from
some defect in construction, there would be
no danger excepting from some flying
piece. which might do damage, Of course. In
an explosion of stelm.boer the destruc-
| ton is cIused by the sudden and marvellous
increase of pressure which occurs at the mo.
| ment of explosion. This is not understood
| scientifically, but the fact remains that when
| A boiler eXplodcS under pressure OF say
thirty or forty pounds, a. the instant of ex-
posion there will be pressure of 10000
pounds on the sudden liberation of the
steam, and it is this which causes the dam.
age which results. Now, with the keely
motor it is entirely different. Supposing
there should he, from some defect in the MA
chinery, an explosion, and the motor should
be suddenly liberated. BY its expansion it
would be coudepsed 10 water. and no dam.
age would be done.
The Keely motor not only will do the
work of steam, but is applicable to all pur.
poses for which guDpowder is used, and is
far superior TO gunpowder or any other eX-
plosive known. We have rifle from which
we have fired hundreds Of bullets with it.,
and these experiments have demonstrated
its superiority to guOpowder. Ii is we'll uC-
derstood that the force of the gases generated
by the explosion OF powder lessons Is the ball
travels on its way through the barrel, and
that ifthe barrel were long enough, par
tial vacuum would be formed behind the
ball. The study of the subject has led TO the
experiment of exploding three or tour Car.
tridges in succession behind the ball as
it travels through the barrel. By this
means tremendous impetus can be given to
the ball. as has been repeatedly demon.
strated by experiment. But tie pressure
of the Kecly motor is continued up 10 the
time the ball leaves the muZz'e Of the
(eun, when Of course by further eXpan-
sion the motor is condensed to water.
One of the remarkable things about the
keely motor is that it carDot be transmitted
at lower pressure than 1000 pouncs. 1t
can be used, OF course, at a lower pressure
after it is put ia action. 1t can be regulated
like steam, bu. its transmission at less than