Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-24
THE KELLEY MOTOR.
1t is Again Before an Admitting Public
for Applause.
Philadelphia Times


The Directors of the Kelley Motor
Company met the other evening to wit
ness Keely's experiments with new
machine, which weighs more than twen-
ty tons. 1t has cost 100000, having
been two years in process Of erection,
and was twice reconstructed with other
metal, because the two first choices of
the inventor proved not strong enough
to restrain the energy OF his vapor The
machine is made OF wrought iron and
cast steel. 1t consists of spheres, ba-
sins, standing tubes and small reservoirs,
with wilderness of connecting rods,
valves and tiny copper tubes. A globe
OF cast steel, four feet in diameter on
the outside, holds only twelve gallons.
The center cavity is in shell of nine
inches thickness. The perpendicular
tubes that reach from floor to ceiling, at
the other end Of the machine have a
central chamber of three inches diane
ter, the surrounding metal being three
inches thick, and outside Of it, one above
the other, are huge rings of wrought iron
shrunk upon the pipe The copper
tubes appear to be one-fourth and one
half inch in diameter but the aperture
in their centre is not large enough to
admit pin-head. The machine is now
complete Mr.. Keely is giving exhibit
tons of its force, registering pressure to
the square inch, and is testing it's
strength before he applies the power to
large engines. First, he began to regis
ter pressure upon the guage, which will
register pressure of 1000 pounds
pressure to the inch, and had to shut off
the pressure because the gague would
not stand more. The condensing appar-
atus into which the vapor is discharged
is cylinder that holds three gallons of
water and so strongly bolted and barred
that it looks as if made for the discharge
of a twenty-inch projectile. Its design
is to reduce the vapor, the force of
which has just been used, to water, for
use over and over again in the working
of the machine. The Times represent
ative had an opportunity to breathe the
mysterious vapor while the wonderful
pressure was upon the tubes. 1t was
discharged into his hands, his eyes, and
his mouth. 1t was perfectly cold and
dry
Within month, when he has made
all his experiments with his now com
pleted machine, Mr.. Kelley will endeav-
or to show the extent Of it's power. In
his concluding talk with the Times rep
resentative, Mr.. Keely said: This is a
new substance;a new force, altogether
unknown to science. l do not pretend
to be the inventor; | discovered it by ac-
cident. | could work this machine up
to 10000 horsepower if the metal would
hold. | shall certainly work it upon a
200 horsepower engine soon. The little
machine you saw in the Office up stairs
Gt is only nine feet long, two feet wide
and three feet high in the highest part)
is the most powerful machine ever con
structed. 1t was built for us by Mr..
Willard, of Bordentown, who was drown
ed a few days ago, 1t was a quart ma
chine-that is to say, it used only a
quart of water. With the condenser
that have now nearly complete, | will
make that quart of water produce 1000
horsepower motion of sufficient dura-
ton to run steamship across the
| ocean