Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-06-17
A NEW MOTOR.
Correspondence of the New York Tri

PHILADELPHIA, June 7.-"Within thirty
days you will see train of 20 Pullman cars
drawn from Philadelphia to New York with
out steam, electricity, hot air, or any other
known motive power
The speakers tone was one of profound
conviction, and there were no symptoms of in
sanity in his face. had known him for
long time as man who attended to his busi
ness, paid his debts, was opposed to the Third
Term, and gave other evidences of sanity.
"Well, what is to haul the train ?" | asked
incredulously.
"The wonderful new MOTOR" he replied );
"a little machine that needs only small sup
ply of water and air. About bucketful of
water will be enough to run to New York."
"And the fuel ?"
"There is no el-absolutely nothing but
the water, the air, and the little machine"
remembered vaguely having read some
thing about this invention last summer, and
having wondered how some poor, halfcracked
inventor had got a newspaper to unfold his
wild fancies. Since then had heard it talked
about occasionally during the winter by peo-
pie who had only hearsay information. My
friend was so enthusiastic that promised to
look into the matter Whereupon he said
that it could not belooked into yet, everything
connected with the invention being kept a
profound secret from everybody except few
capitalists, who had furnished the money to
develop it, and two or three experts who had
been employed by them to examine and re-
port upon the machine A few days after
this conversation an insurance agent brought
in an equally extravagant tale of the new
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some stock in it, which was not for sale at any
price. Now, it is hard to get the start of an
Insurance agent in bagain, and the fact that
this gentleman had invested money in the
machine gave it certain claim to respect.
The claim was enhanced, when met the in
ventor, who drove his own carriage, and
looked in every way sane and solvent. Ob
viously the new moter whatever it NJ ght be,
had propelled him into very comfortable cir
cumstances. He used to live in back street,
it is said, and tinkered away at his machine
for IA years before he got to work, fighting off
poverty the while as best he could. With
curiosity stimulated by the enigmatical talk
of the inventor and the marvellous stories Of
his friends, set about picking up and putting
together the facts about the machine, with
such results as appear below.
The inventors name is John w. Keely,
and he calls his invention the "Keely Motor" !"
1t is owned by stock company composed
chiefly of New York and Philadelphia
capitalists, who have paid in working capi-
tai of about S150,000 and hold stock of the
nominal par value of 81 100000. They value
this stock at fabulous prices. The original
associates of Mr.. Keely, who are all members
of the present company, are James S. 1arnell,
John Stiltz, Chas. B. Collier, J. W. Schuck-
ers, and William Beekel of this city, and
Charles B. Till of Morristown, N. J. The
apparatus that generates the power is called
a "multiplicator," and is composed of num-
Der of iron chambers of cylindrical form, con-
nected by pipes and fitted with certain cocks
and valves. The machine upon which ex-
periments have been conducted during the
past eight months is about 36 inches high, "a
long. and 13 wide, and its cylinders will hold
about six gallons of water. A small brass
pipe, with an ori6ce one-quarter Of an inch in
diameter, leads from it to a strong wrought
iron reservoir six inches in diameter and three
feet long, where the power is stored, and
whence it is fed to beam engine through a
still smaller pipe The process of generating
Lne power COlSlSIS Ill IOrClllS dlr llLO tne upper
chamber of the multiplication, and afterward
letting water run in from a hydrant until the
receptacles are nearly filled. In the expert
ments lately made the inventor has used his
own lungs for an air pump, blowing through
tube for few seconds, then turning a cock
to shut off the air, connecting the tube with
the hydrant and opening the cock until suffi-
cient water runs in. Within two minutes af-
ter this operation is performed the cocks on
the tubes connecting the upper with the lower
cylinders are turned and the power is ready
for use. The little machine exerts through
the small tube, oneeighth of an inch in di-
ameter, pressure varying from 1000 to 15,.
900 pounds to the square inch, at the will of
the operator. The power is accurately meas
ured by force register. When applied to
the engine it runs it as rapidly as it is pru-
dent to permit, the supply ofpower always be-
ing kept below its full capacity.
Very thorough tests have been made by
those interested in probing the mystery, to see
if there was not some trick Of concealed chem
icals to generate gas. The multiplication has
been suspended from the rafters of the build
ing and air blown through it, and it has been
flooded repeatedly with water to dissolve any
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