Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-07-23
Mlislellaneons.
The Kelly Motor An Interview with
the Inventor What He Claims for
his Engine.

a correspondent OF inc JulcuSo liltcI-
Ocean, writing from Philadelphia about
the Kecly Motor, says:
IN INTERVIEW WITH MR.. KELLY, TIE IN
yENToR.
Mr.. Keely's appearance is rather that
of a retired business man than of an in
ycntor whose brain is ever active. Be
sides there is not that look indicative of
great mental power which one expects
to see ia man Of his character. When
he entered the room-I had been wait
ing some time-T should have taken him
for any other person than the inventor
Of the new motor had | not had a paint
ing before my eyes all the time | was
waiting. He is tall, broad shonldered,
and very heavily built, and wears tolera
bly, long and bushy hair. He greeted
me cordially, but with a sort of reserve
which seemed to tell me that he knew
my mission. He did not appear at first
DESTROYS of saying much. But when !
Informed him | had had conversation
with Mr.. Collier, he seemed relieved,
and. became very free of speech. l
liked his appearance much better after
he had talked awhile True, his CONVEX
sation frequently betrayed lack Of the
intelligence one would expect to see in
him but he understood his invention
thoroughly, to all appearances, and be-
came very animated at times while re-
citing it's merits and the work it could
do. He smiled repeatedly at relating
some incidents that had occurred in his
experiments and altogether seemed il
the height of Joy over his discovery.
ats most wonderful" he replied, af-
ter the subject had been introduced.
"a most wonderful thing can't hard
ly myself see how it was / came to dis
cover it. 1t seemed to burst right upon
me. No amount of study could have
produced it. 1t is purely IA discovery"
R.: "And it was made while simply
experimenting with water?
Mr.. K: Eyes. There was no fire
about and l had no chemicals of any
kind"
R.: "What does it seem to be z"
Mr.. X: It's simply a vapor Of so fine
an order that it will penetrate metal. 1t
is lighter than hydrogen and more pow
erful than steam or any explosives
known. When it comes in contact with
the air it almost instantaneously disap-
pears. If there is large quantity let
out into the air suddenly it seems to
draw the atmosphere toward it as if
vacuum had been produced. | remem-
Der on one occasion put too great pres
sure in the receiver and it exploded,
throwing the pieces and a large-sized
stopcock up through the ceiling My
breath, it seemed, was taken from me
for the moment"
r.: "Mr. Keely, will you state some
of your experience with the machine you
now have, or the one you have been ex-
perimenting with ?"
Mr.. X: "Well, | hardly know how
10 begin. It would take week to tell
YOU all it has DONE At first | expert
mented with small Objects Gradually
increasing the pressure [ found this va
por was capable Of eXerting power in
fnitely. 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 I viii state that I
once drove an engine making 800 revo-
buttons minute, of forty horse power,
with less than thimblc-f full Of water,
and kept it running fifteen days with the
same water by dissipating the vapor as
fast as used The vapor is exceedingly
fine. In due time | produced pressure
Of about twenty eight thousand pounds
to the square inch in shell (the re-
ceiver) which had capacity of gallon
and half, and was three and a half in
ches thick The pressure was so great
that the vapor passed through the three
inches and half of metal and formed a
damp circle on the floor, with radius
of three feet, used half pint of wa
ter. On another occasion, i'll company
with several others, experimental with
gun The target was four-ineh
plank, placed against steel platter.
The best Government powder drove the
ball through the plank. The distance
was about eight feet, My vapor threw
the ball with such tremendous force thai
it went through plank and steel, tearing
the bullet in shrcds.
r.: '.Would it be serviceable in thu
army ?"
Mr.. X: ooh yes ! All that would b
needed is small iron receiver about tn
size of an orange attached to the gun
The power would last through the long
est battle. We shot forty-two rounds il
this instance, and there was no apparen
diminution in the force. p"
r.: How about the Pullman cars
Mr.. Keely ?"
Mr.. X: ''Well, l propose in about 81,
months to run a train of thirty car
from here to New York at rate of mil
minute with one small engine, and
will draw the power all out of as mucl
water as you can hold in the palm o
your hand. Why, people have no ide
of the power in water--I mean that cal
be drawn out of it. A bucket of waite
has enough of this vapor to produce
power sufficient to move the world out o
its course. An ordinary steamship cal
be run so fast with it that it would b
split in two. During the centennial W
propose to run train of three car
around the grounds all the time, and
large part of the machiney. The vapo
too, is capable of causing much amuse
ment. / have time aud again creates
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