The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-07-22

solemn assertions that the machine which
he than had in p ration derived its sole
power from the four small battery caps
which the witnesses saw standing on a
shelf at the side of the apartment. The
machine was tested with breaks AZ to
power by well known PRACTICAL eleetri-
cians of this city, whose names are now
before us, who reported large gains of
power, and detected no fraud. Their
experiments were corroborated by-many
other intelligent witnesses. Special ex-
hibitions were given to capitalists, who
pronounced the show wonderful. We
expressed the opinion that the whole
thing was
A DECEPTION,
Warming the public against investing
means in the motor shares. We repro
duced the well known mathematics of
electric action; we showed the exact
amount of force derivable, under the
most favorable circumstances, from the
consumption of given amount of zinc
and acid, as determined, after exhaIls-
tive experience, by the most eminent
Swans, and from these teachings we
pointed out the necessary falsity of the
statements made in behalf of the new
motor. Paine, Ill reply to our strict
ures, reaflirmed all that he lad before
claimed for his motor, which he now al
legged was far below the actual truth, he
said that he was then engaged in build
ing q great and powerful engine, which
would be ready in ninety days which
would develop 500-horse power from
single cup, completely annihilate the
figures given by us, and show to the
world that people who, like the editor
OF The Scientific American, undertook
to doubt or critioieo tho performance of
machine they had ever seen and wefe
practically unacq1Iainted with, were jack
asses, or "a fool, % as our friend Mr.. Col
lier suggests others might properly say.
81 am familiar said Paine, ''with the
experiments of Grover, Carpenter, May
er, Faraday, Liebig, and a host Of 9th
ers relative to the doctrine of correlation
and conservation of forces. Therefore,
[ am no tyro, but the peer of any au-
thority you may quote, and as such [
unqualifiedly assert that, instead of the
miserably small result of $1,000 foot
pounds from three grains of zine, as
stated in The Scientific American, we
should realize $1,000, 900 foot pounds.
The forces developed by the action of
single Bnnsen quart cell, if utilized and
converted into powder, would drive the
largest ship afioat with velocity only
| limited by the strength of the ships
| frame; and you and [ will live to see the
day, it our lives are heightened to the
usual term, when this statement will be
verified, and that, too, without involving
the question of perpetual motion"
This sort of talk prevailed with the
capitalists; they
| SWALLOWED THE BAIT,
paid in their money, took their shares
without being urged and that was
the end of the 200-horse power; no per-
petual motion-one cup, engine and
motor. The Kelley meteor deception,
in all its aspects up to this date, is bnt a
repetition of the Paine affair. The orig
inator is very honest all the people who
assist at the deception believe in him and
his machine. They know not precisely
how the thing is done, or by what law it
is governed, but they know that it is done,
and any suggestion to the contrary they
seem to consider as a reflection on their
personal intelligence and honor. The
| Kelley performances is as follows:
Kelley blows from his lungs for a per-
per of 30 seconds, into nozzle upon the
generator. Heconnects the same nozzle,
| ny H0dIlS VI Il SIIistl. IuDDtI CUDG, WIFI
the hydrant, and let's in 5 gallons of wa
ter under pressure of 26 pounds to the
inch, then shuts off the water. Heopens
the valve of a pipe of Ito of an inch
| bore, between the generator and a gauge
or a pressure indicator; and 10 the
gauge indicates 10000 pounds to the
square inch. Such, in sum and substance
Is the Kelley motor, as set forth by the
learned counsel of the inpany corrob-
GRATED by various mechanical experts,
in the statements they have now freely
prepared for the especial benefit and en-
| lightement of the readers of The Scien-
| tific American: corroborated, also, by
scores of other intelligent persons, so
Mr.. Collier assures US. The major
| ity of our readers will doubtless con-
clude with us that, on the showing of
the parties themselves, the whole thing
must be classed as second rate juggle,
a mechanical Katie King arrangement,
too contemplate for serions considera-
| ton.