The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-07-13
THE KEELY MOTOR.
An Interview with The Inventor
What HetIaims for HIS Engine.

A correspondent of the Chicago L'fer
OcfaH, writing from Philadelphia about
the keely motor, says.
AN INTERVIEW WITH MR.. KELLY, TIL
INVENTOR.
Mr.. Keely's appearance is rather thai
OF retirad business man than Of al IN
ventor whose brain is ever active. BE-
sides there is not that look indicative oi
great mental power which one expects u
see in man of his character. Wheh 1t
entered the room-I had been waiting
some time should have taken MIN Ioi
any other person than the inventor oi
the new motor had ! not had painting
before my ewes all the time | was walt
ino He Is tall. broad shouldered, and
very heavily built, and wears loieraoiy
long and bushy hair lie greeted me
cordially. but with a sort OF re-
serve which seems to tell me that he
knew nv mission. He did not appear at
first DESTROYS of saying much. But when
informed him | had had converse
ton with Mr. Collier, he seemed relieved,
and became very free of speech. | liked
his appearance much better after he had
talked awhile. True, his conversation
frequently betrayed lack of the intel
lgence one would expect to see in him,
but he understood his invention tho
roughly, to all appearances, and became
very animated at times while rccitlng its
merits and the work it could do. He
smiled repeatedly at recountng some in
cidents that had occurred IN his expert
mcnts, and altogether seemed in the
height OF joy over his discovery.
"It's most wonderful he replied, after
the subject had been introduced. "a
most wonderful thing; can't hardly see
myself how it was | came to discover it.
1t seemed to burst right upon me. No
amount of study could have produced it.
1t is purely discovery
R.-And it was made while simply ex-
perimenting with water?
Mr.. K.-Yes. There was no fire
about, and had no chemicals of any
kind.
R-Whut does it seem to be?
Mr.. KIT is simplya vapor of 50 fine
an order that it will penetrate metal. 1t
is lighter than hydrogen and more pow
crful than steam ar any explosives known.
When it comes in contact with the AIR it
almost instantaneously disappears. If
there Is u large quantity let out into the
air suddenly it seems to draw the atmos-
pherc toward il Us if Il vacuum had been
produced. remember on one occasion
put too great pressure in the receiver
and it exploded, throwing the pieces and
largc-siZed stop-cock up through the
ceiling. My breath, it seemed, was taken
from me for moment.
R.-Mr. Kelley, will you state some
ofvour experience with the machine you
now have, or the one you have been en-
pcrtncntng with?
Mr. K.-Wcll, | hardly know how to
begin. 1t would take week to tell you
all it IN, done. Al first | experimental
with small objects. Gradually increasing
the pressure found this vapor was capa-
blo of cXcrtug power infinitely. You
must remember that it takes nothing but
air and water to do this, and very little
of the latter. As an instance OF this |
will state that ! once drove an engine
making sly revolutions aminute, of forty
horse power, with less than Il thimble-
full Of water, and kept it running fifteen
DAYS with the same water by dissipating
the vapor rs fast IL used. The vapor
is exceedingly fine. In due time |
produced "a pressure of about twenty
eight Thousand pounds to the square inch
in "a shell lthe receiver which had n ca
pucity of Il gallon and half, and was
thrcc.and half inches thick. The pres
sure WAS So great that the vapor passed
through the three inches and Il half of
metal and formed damp circle Oh the
floor with radius of three feet. used
IL half pint of water. On another occa
sion, in company with several others, !
experimental with II gun. The target
was four-inch plank, placed against II
steel plate The best Government pow
der drove the ball through the punk.
The distance wa, about eight feet. My
vapor threw the ball with such trcmend-
Gus force that it went through plank and
steel, tearing the bullet in shrcds.
R-Woud it be seryiccabe in the
army?
Mr.. K.-Oh ye.! All that would be
needed is small iron receiver about the
size of nm orange attached TO the gun.
The power would last through the long
est battle. We shot forty-two rounds in
this instance, and there was no apparent
dimiuution in the force.
R-Ilow about the Pullman cars, Mr..
Kcrly?
Mr.. k.-Wcli, propose in about six
months to run Il tram Of thirty cars from
here to New York at the rate of mile Il
minute with one small engine; and will
draw the power all out of Us much water
rs you can hold in the palm Of your hand.
Why, people have no idea of the power
in watcr-I mean that can be
drawn out of it. \ bucket Of water has
enough of this vapor to produce power
sufficient to move the world out OF its
course An ordinary steamship can be
run 80 fast with il that it would be split
in two. During the centennial we pro-
pose TO run train OF three cars around
the grounds all the time, and II large part
of the machinery. The vapor, too, is
capable of causing much amusement. |
have time and again created artificial
ow.stormS in my shop. This can be
produced with no labor or trouble. The
tube through which the vapor passes is
frequently covered with Ice on the exter-
Tor, although the passage for the vapor is
not larger than needle; you could not
hold your hand on it without being
frozen.
| have given but a few of the many
things capable of being done by Mr..
Kecly, by his invention. | think, how
ever, | have given sufficient to tax the
crcduIity of any ordinary beng. What
will be looked for now by every one is
the machine itself. 1t is impossible to
believe such 4 power exists in the com.
mon affair, Of lie, or at least that it can
be produced from SO little unless we can
see with our own eyes. MIR. kecly re-
fused my request to see his present APP
paratus, eXcuSing himself on the grouId
that it was ont of order at present.