The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-07-03
THE COLD-wATER ENGINE.
The Wonderful Invention of Il Philadelphia
Mechanic IA substitute for steam.

The Wonderful Invention OF Il Philadelphia
Mechanic IA substitute for steam.
From tie Ns,c York Tribune.
PHILADELPHIA, June =" Within 80 days
you will see train OF Pullman cars drawn
from Philadelphia to New York without
steam, electricity, hot air, or any other known
motive power"
The speakers tone was one Of profound
conviction, and there we're no symptoms OF
Insanity in hisfsCe had known him tor a
long time as man who attended to his bust.
ness, paid his debts, was opposed TO the third
term, and gave other evidences of insanity.
"Well, what is to haul the train ~ asked
incredulously.
1.-THE wonderful new motor" he replied ;
q little machine that needs only small sup
ply of water and air. About buckettul OF
water Will be enough to run to New York"
And the fuel"
"There is no fue absolutely nothing but
the water, the air, and the little machine
I remember vaguely having read some.
thing about this invention last summer, and
having wondered how some poor, half-crack-
ed inventor had got a newspaper to unfold
his wild tancies. Since then | had heard it
talked about occasionally during the winter
by people who had only heresay information.
Nv friend was so enthusiastic that | prOmis-
ed to look into the matter. Whereupon he
said that it could not be looked into yet, ev.
erythlng connected with the invention being
kept profound secret from everybody ex.
cept few capitalists, who had furnished the
money to develop it, and two or three experts
who had been employed by them to examine
and report upon the machine. A few days
after this conversation an insurance agent
brought in an equally extravagant tale of the
-. 10 had . ,l, t,nI
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 bargain, and the
fact that this gentleman had invested money
in the machine gave it certain claim to re-
spect. The claim was enhanced, when met
the inventor, who drove his own carriage,
and looked in every way sane and solvent,
Obviously the new motor, whatever it might
be, had propelled him into very comfortable
circumstances. He used to live in a back
street, il is said, and tinkered away at his ma,
chine for IA years before he got it to work,
fighting off poverty the while as best he
could. With curiosity stimulated by the
,enigmatical talk Of the inventor and the mar
velous stories of his friends, set about pick
ing up and putting together the facts about
the machine, with such results rs appear be-
low.
The inventors name is John W. Kelley,
and he calls his Invention the "kcelcy Mo-
tor 1t is owned by stock company com
posed chiefly OF New York and Philadelphia
capitalists, who have paid in n working cap.
ital OF about $l5O00O and hold stock of the
nominal par value of 81 ,G0OC00. They value
this stock at fabulous prices. The original
associates OF Nlr. Kelley, who are members
of the present company are James ). Var
nell, John StilM Charles b. Collier, j. W..
Schuckers, and William Boekel, of this city,
and Charles B. Till, of MOrristown, n. j. The
apparatus that generates the power is called
q multiplication" and is composed of num-
Der of iron chambers of cylindrical FORM
connected by pipes and fitted with certain
cocks and valves. The machine upon which
experiments have been conducted during the
past eight months is about SO inches high, "a
long, and IL wide and its cylinders will hold
about six gallons of water. 4 small brass
pipe, with an orifce one-Quarter Of an inch
in diameter, leads from it TO strong wrought
iron reservoir six inches in diameter and
three feet long, where the power is stored,
and whence 1t is fed TO beam engine through
a stlIl smaller pipe, The process of gener
ating the power consists in forcing air into
the upper chamber OF the multiplication and
atterward letting water,r run in from hydrant
until the receptdcles are nearly filled. In the
experiments lately made the inventor has
used his own lungs for an air pump, blowing
through tube for few seconds, then turn
ing cock to shut off the air, connecting the
tube with the hydrant, and opening the cock
until sufficient water runs in Within two
minutes after 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 cXerts
through the small tube, one-eight of an inch
in diameter, pressure varying from 1000 to
$4,000 pounds to the square inch, at the will
of the operator. The power is accurately
measured by a force register. When applied
to the engine it runs it as rapidly as it is pru.
dent 10 permit, the supply OF power being al
ways 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
chemicals 20 generate gas. The multiplied
tor has been suspended from the rafterS OF
the building and air blown through 1t, and
il has been flooded repeatedly with water TO
dissolve any chemical compound il might
hold concealed. Immediately after these
tests the power has been generated. Last fall
an elaborate series of experiments were con-
Quoted by Chief engineer Rutherford OF the
United States navy, J. SEowden Bell, me-
chanical engineer, W. Boekel, mechanician,
and Chas. ID. Collier, a lawyer of this city,
and the results were printed in a pamphlet
for the private information Of the stockhoid-
ers. Besides the air and water tests they ex.
amined the escape from the valves, and found
Il TO be q vaporic or gaseous production,
without smell or taste and with no explosive