The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-07-08
Ne More Use for Steam.

-. Ne More Use for Steam.
A correspondent ofthe New York 7ItL
a1ns has been investigating as mucl
as the inventor would permit tn
merits of the invention OF Mr.
Kelley, Of Philadelphia, called tn
4" Kelley motor" It's owned by a stool
company composed chiefly of New Iorl
and Philadelphia capitalists, who hav'
paid In a working capital of about $50,
600. They value this stock at fabulous
prices. The apparatus that generates tn
power Is called a multiplicator," and i
composed of number of iron chambers
of cylindrical form, connected by pipe
and fitted with certain cocks and valves
The MACHINE upon which the experimeist
have been conducted during the past eh
months is about thirty-Six inches high
twenty-four long and thirteen wide.ans
its cylinders Will hold about six gallon
Of water. A small brass pipe, with al
orifice equarter of an inch In diameter
! leads from il TO strong wrought-iron res
ervoir six inches in diameter and three
| feet long where the power is stored anC
whence it is fed TO beam engine through
a still smaller pipe. The process of gen
Grating the power consists in forcing all
llltO vi lllt
tor, and afterward letting water run in
from hvdrant until the Teceptacles are
nearly filled. In the experiments lately
made the inventor has Used his own lungs
for an air pump. blowing through a tube
for few seconds, then turning cock to
shut off the air, connecting the tube with
the hydrant and opening the cock until
sufficient water runsin. Within two min
utes after this operation is performed the
cocks on the tubes connecting the upper
with the lower cy inderS are turned and
the power is ready for use. The little ma
chine exerts through the small tube, one
eighth of an inch in diameter, pressure
varying from 1000 to 1900 pounds to the
square inch, at the viii of the operator.
The power is accurately measured by a
force register. When applied TO the en-
CINE it runs it as rapidly as it is prudent to
permit, the supply of power always being
kept below its full capacity.
Very thorough tests have been made by
those interested in probing the mystery,
tosee if there was not some trick of con-
cealed chemicals to generate gas. The
multiplication has been suspended from
the rafters of the building and air blown
through it, and it has been flooded repeat
edly with water to dissolve any chemical
compound it might hold concealed. I'M
niediately after these tests the power
has been generated. Last fail an
elaborate series of experiments were
conducted. Beside the air and water tests
they examined the escape from the valves,
and found it to be . vaporic or gaseous
production" without smell or taste, and
with no explosive or intlammable proper
ties when exposed TO a flame. When 0
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 discovered no
unusual favor or odor, and took the ma
chine to pieces without finding any resi-
dunn.
What, then, is this strange power. capa-
BILE of doing the work of steam without
heat? The inventor talks about the null
tiplied power of hydraulic columns held
IN suspension, but gives no further explain
alton of the manner by which a pressure
of twenty-Six pounds to the inch, which
the Schuylkill water has in the hydrant, is
increased TO 1000 pounds by merely
passing through his iron cylinders. 1t is
his secret, he says, and he viii reveal it as
soon as his paten is in this country and in
dlt iScuCNi. NhC Va Vic Dl
owners of the invention accounts for the
strange force on the superstition that the
machine separates water into its ultimate
atoms, and changes their cohesive force
into one of strong repulsiOn. 1t is a sin
gular popularity of the force that when it
is diminished much below a pressure of
l 200 pounds to the square inch it extin-
cuisines itself, fading out and leaving no
sign. Mr.. Keelry is now engaged on a
new and larger multiplication, the p IT'S of
which have been made in different machine
shops TO preserve the secret of its con.
struction. 1t is almost re rdy for use.
One thing appears certain from these
facts or allegations, either Mr.. Kelley is
perpetrating a remarkably ingenious and
succy ssful fraud, or he has really, as he
asserts, discovered new motive power
that must soon supersede steam and revO-
lutioniZe machinery. If the invention is
genuine the importance can scarcely be ex-
aggerated. Steam engines will become
obsolete. Steamships will be remOdeled.
The railway locomotive must give way to
the new motor engine, burning no fuel
and emitting no smoke, and coal Wal be.
come drug on the market. ..s g..
The correspondent was told that within
thirty days he would see a train of twen-
ty passenger cars drawn from Philadel-
phia to New York without steam, cleo
tricity, hot air or any other known motive
power.