The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-10-14
KELLEY AND HIS MOTOR.
A Visit to the Mysterious Workshop
in Philadelphia.

World
PHILADELPHIA, September 3.-A dav ar
two ago, finding myself on what PbiladeI-
phians call 1.-The Ridge, stopped at the door
OF John W Kelley, the curiousIv celebrated
inventor of the Kelley Motor. This motor
IS claimed to be an entirely new power dis
covered by Mr.. Kelley, and so surDassinr the
power and pressure of steam or ounnowder
so perfectly comfortable withaI and so mex
pehsiVe that II must supersede steam entirely
as driving force In every department of me-
'chanlcs. 1t will run a railroad train with
out fuel or fuss for nothing but the cost of an
apparatus ten times smaller than jim Woods
shorter on the New York Central 1t will
make stowage-room OF coai-bunkers at sea-
Tighten steamships of the weight of heavy
machinery, and much increase their speed
1t will shut up the locomotive works and half
the coal mlneS but keep factories Changing
anu spinning at the least cost for Attendance
on the spmte that sets in motion belts, pull
leys, hammers, spindles, lathes 1t will in
fact, if there is anything in it, vindica,e the
claim of Mr.. keeleys friends, that he knocks
Fulton and Franklin utterly out of time.
Mr.. keeley's parlor, where l waited for
nm, had over the mantel a remarkable p0r-
trait, which | at once took to be the inven-
tors. The portrait was not so remarkable as
the man who entered preseptlv with his coat
oft ard with halfsmoked cigar burning in
his left hand. An athlete, six feet to an inch.
with the loins of Hercules and the shoulders
of Atlas. Above, Appolo's head, a Sicilian's
hair, and creoes complexion. Ewes brown.
piercing and mischievouS. \ mstache and
imperial as blue black as MS locks which were
matted on his broad forehead by the sweatof a
midday walk Diamonds blazed on his shirt
front and on his fingers. His right hand
grip left the impress of a steel gauntlet, and
his manner was that of one over charged
with electricity, like an eel.
| told Mr. keelev that had seen in the
newspapers and In one scientific paper, the
.Sctent,rc An1eytca1l, 50 much buresque and
denunciatiOD Of his invention that | was very
curious to know more of it. Although lie
had an impending appointment with his wife,
he at once conducted me back through the
house and yard into his workshop, hurriedIE
explaining he went the machinery and
processes of the Motor. The workshop,
which is as secluded AZ possible, is not much
more than twenty feet square, and has two
floors. The ground floor IS the machinery,
engine and experimenting room. Engineers
when they come in here, are puzzled by the
strange forms of the apparatus, the chief pur-
pose or WDlCn Is StfcU9tn
Mr.. Kelley pointed 10 a generator" an
enormous egg-shaped mass of iron in
corner II think it must have been thirty
five inches long by twenty inches in diane
ter across, and said it had a hollow of the
capacity Of gallon and a half in the cen
ter All the rest Of it was solid iron. It
had been discarded because it was not strong
enough to imprison and hold in check the
Force he had invented He directed my at
tention to 'fulJiplcator,' or regulator of
the Force-a piece of mechanism Astounding
with heavy iron chambers, with walls OF
great thickness and connecting tubes of small
bore and heavy brass circumference, and said
that had been discarded likewise. every
tube of that machine blrst here one morn
ing while [ was standing right here in the
room There have been seven explosions
since | began these experiments, and |
haven't got a scratch from enc Of them
I've been very Fortunate" Touching with his
foot several pieces of iron weighing from 200
to 500pounds each, he applied to them all
the stigma that they wouldn't stand pressure
There were ianges and screws, bent and use
less, that it seemed as if nothing but the pow
er of nitro glycerihe could have deformed.
"What Is the force that curls up iron IN
this way :" asked.
w ell, SIT, Sdlu Mt. hctltN, WIN his eyes
in the air. and slowly formulating his reply,
Its a force obtained from the liberation of
a latent power of water. The process Of
liberation is practically instantaneous. 1t
tears thewater, so to speak-decomposes its
particles The force is stronger than any
heretofore known. The only trouble has
been to get an apparatus strong enough to
contain and control it."
Don't YOU use any chemicals or other
known scientific agents ?"
"Nothing whatever The motor is not an
invention; it is a discovery.
Of course didn't ask Mr. Kelley to ex-
plain all about his Force, but it must be the
simplest process conceivable. All he wants
in the first place is an iron cylinder with
capacity from thimble full Up to five gal
Ions according 20 the quantity of Force he is
to generate But the walls of this cylinder
must be of extraordinary thickness and den
sitv Some of his experiments have resulted
in the separation OF the fanges connecting
the two halves of the cylinder or, when this
has not occurred in the wasting of water and
Force through the sweating pores, of the
iron walls The utmost force which Mr.
Keeev has been able TO generare with safety
has registered pressure of l6, 600 pounds 10
the square inch. When it is considered that
steam boilers are usuaI " tested at a pressure
of 300 pounds 10 the square inch, and run
at a pressure not often exceeding 30 pounds
the requisite strength of the Kelley Motor
boiler or Generator, even for this pressure OF