Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-06-17

Immediately after these tests the power has
been generated. Last fall an elaborate series
of experiments were conducted by Chief En-
gineer Rutherford of the United States Navy /;
J. Snowden Bell, a mechanical engineer; VIM.
Beekel, mechanician, and Chas. B. Collier, a
lawyer of this city, and the results we're print
ed in pamphlet for the private information
of the stockholders. Beside the air and wa
ter tests they examined the escape from the
valves, and found it to be "vaporic or gas.
eous production" without smell or taste, and
with no explosive or infammable properties
when exposed to flame. When piece Of
muslin cloth was held over the escape an icicle
of the shape of thimble was rapidly formed.
The investigators also tasted the water which
had been used in the multiplication, and dis
covered no unusual flavor or odor, and took
the machine to pieces without finding any
residuum.
What, then, is this strange power, capable
of doing the work of steam without heatf
The inventor talks about the multiplied pow
er of hydraulic columns held in suspension,
but gives no further explanation Of the man.
ner by which a pressure of 26 pounds to the
inch, which the Schuylkill water has in the
hydrant, is increased to $4,000 pounds by
merely passing through his iron cylinders. 1t
is his secret, he says, and he will reveal it as
soon as his patents in this country and IN
ENGLAND are issued One of the principal
owners of the invention accounts for the
strange force on the supposition that the ma
chine separates water into its ultimate atoms,
and changes their cohesive force into one Of
strong repulson. 1t is a singular peculiarly
of the force that when it is diminished much
below pressure of 200 pounds to the square,
inch, it extinguishes itself, fading out and
leaving no sign. Mr.. Keely is now engaged
on new and larger multiplication, the parts
of which have been made in different machine
shops to preserve the secret Of its construc-
ton. 1t is almost ready for use.
One thing appears certain from these facts
or allegations either Mr.. Keely is perpetra-
ting remarkably ingenious and successful
fraud, or he has really, as he asserts, discover
ed a new motive power that must soon super.
sede steam and revolutionize machinery. If
the invention is genuine its Importance can
scarcely be exaggerated. Steam engines will
become obsolete Steamships will be remod-
eled. The railway locomotive must give way
to the new motor engine, burning no fuel and
emitting no smoke, and coal will become
drug on the market. Perhaps all fuel will be
needless. for heat and motion are introcon-
vertible, and if an air and water apparatus
can generate motion, why may not that mo-
tion be changed to heat to warm our dwell
ings9 By this time the reader will be ready
to ask, "Do you, newspaper correspondent,
who ought to have had your credulity knock
ed out of you by experience, believe in this
new motor?" 1t is a fair question, and my
answer is "No; seeing is believing. When l
see the train running to New York l will be-
lieve and not before. But that there are
man, 'ersons who have faith in the invention,
I can vouch for
Let me add that the stock is not for sale,
and that all the inventor asks Of the public is
that it will let him alone until he completes
the new multiplication he is now making and
is ready to exhibit it.