Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-15
FIRST EDITION.
The ESceiey Motor.

WONDERFUL fSyENrIoN--sIEhM TO BE HUPER.
| hEDsD--ho iufL, NO SMOKE, AND COAL TO ne
| COME DRUG.
| The now"Keeley NIotor"has been more or less
talked about in Philadelphia, and elsewhere, foi
some months, and within few days, lengthy
descriptions OF its wonderful character have
| been published. II claims to convert water
without the aid of fire or chemicals into a mo.
| tive power greater than that of steam, and
which by experiment has given Il tons pres
| sure to the square inch, while still greater
capacity is claimed for it with proper machinery.
and 1t IL On-explosive. by u mechanical con
| trivance MIR. keeley, the inventor ch anges water
from all unelastic fluid, to an elastic flnd, which
can be called by no better name than cold steam
In other words, he obtains from water, without
| using fire or chemicals the power now obtained
by fire called steam.
The Philadeipha correspondent OF the N New
York Tribune gives the following details -
The inventors name is John w. Keeley, and
he calls his invention the " Keeley Motor" II
IL owned by stock company composed chiefly
OF New York and Philadelphia capitalists. who
have paid in working capital of about $3.50, 900,
and hold stock OF the nominal par vhlue of 81
OOO,O0O. They value this stock at fabulous
prices. The original associates of Mr.. Kelley,
who are all members of the present company
are James $. Yarnall John Stilz Charles b.
Collier, j. w. Scbuckers and William Doekel, of
this city, and Charles b. Till of Morristown N
called " multiplication" and IL composed OF a
number OF iron chambers OF cylindrical form,
connected by pipes.
and fitted with certain cocks ard valves. The
machine upon which experiments have been con-
Quoted during the past eight months ID about So
inches high, "a long, and - wide, and its cylin-
ders will hold about six gallons OF water. A
small brass pipe, with an orlce one quarter OF
and inch in diameter leads from it to Il strong
wrought-iron reservoir six inches III
diameter and three feet long, where
tho power is stored and whence it lis fod
TO beam engine through still smaller pipe.
The process OF generating the power consists in
forcing air into the upper chamber Of the null
pllcator, and afterward letting water run in from
hydrant until the recepticles are nearly filled.
In the experiments lately made the
inventor has used his own lungs for an air
pump, blowing through tube for u few
seconds then turning cock to shut of the air,
connecting the tube with the hydrant aud open
ing 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 exerts through tho small
tube, one-eighth of an inch in diameter, pres
sure varying from 1000 to $1,000 pounds to
che square inch, at the will of the operator.
The power is accurately measured by force
register. When applied to the engine it runs
it as rapidly as it is prudent to permit, the sup
ply of power always being kept below its full
capacity.
Very thorough tests have been made by those
interested in probing the mystery, to see il
there was not some trick of concealed chemic lis
to generate gas. Tho multplicator has been
suspended from the rafters of the building
and air blown through it and has
been Hooded repeatedly with water to dis
solve any chemical compound it might hold
concealed. Immediately after these tests the
power has been generated. Last fall an elabo-
rate series of experiments were conducted by
Chief Engineer Rutherford. of the United
States navy, ]. Snowden Bell, mechan-
ical engineer William Boekcl, 4 me-
chanician, and Charles B. Collier, Il
lawyer of this CITY, and the results were printed
in pamphlet for the private information of the
stockholders. Beside the mir and water tests
they examined the escape FROM tho valves, and
found it to be "vsporc or gasoous pfoduc-
tion," without smell taste, and with no ex-
ploaive or inilammsble properties when exposed
to flame. When piece of muslin cloth was
held over the escape an lccle in the shape of
thiinble WAS rapidly formed The investigators
also tasted the water which had been used in the
and discovered no unusual flavor
or odor, and took tho machine to piece without
:. ding any fesiduum.
Wilt, then il thls strange power capable OF
doing the work of steam without heatf Tho in
ventor talks about the multiplied power of hy-
draulic columns held i'll suspension, but gives no
further explanation OF the manner by which
pressure of 26 pounds to, the inch which the
water has in the hydiaut, il increased
to 1900 pounds by merely passing through his
iron cylinders. 1t s his secret, he says. and he
will reveal it as coon as his patents in this
country aud i'll England are issued.
One OF the principle owners of the
invention accounts for the strange force on
the suppostion that the machine separates wa
tor into its ultimate atoms, and changes their
cohesive INTO ono of strong fepnlsion. II il
singular popularity of the force that when 1t
is diminished much below pressure OF 200
pounds to the square inch, it extnguishes itself,
fading out and leaving no sign. MIR. Keeley is
now engaged on new and larger multiplication,
the parts of winch have been made in different
machine shops to preserve the secret of its con-
1t is almost ready for uso.