Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-09-05
KEELY'S NEW
Experiments With a $50. 600 Engine-.
1900 Pounds Pressure to the Inch.
Philadelphia Times.


The directors of the Kcely Motor
Company met the other evening to wit
ness Kecly's experiment with II new
machine, which weighs more than
twenty tons. It has cost 100000, it hay
ing been two years IN process OF cree
ton, and was twice reconstructed with
other metal, becausethc first two cholc-
Is of the inventor proved no strong
enough to restrain the energy of MS va
por. The machine Is made of wrought
iron and cast steel. 1t consists Of spheres,
basins, standing tubes, and small reser-
yoirs, with Il wilderness of connecting
rods, valves, and tiny copper tubes. A
globe Of cast steel, four feet in diameter
On the outside, holds only twelve gal
Ions. The centre cavity Is in Il shell Of
nine i4ches thickness. The perpen-
~diculartubcs that reach from floor to
ceiling, atthc other end OF the machine,
have a central chamber of three inches
diameter, the surrounding metal being
three inches thick, and outside Of it, one
above the other, are huge rings Of
wrought iron slrunk upon the pipe.
The copper tubes appear 70 be one
fourth and onc-half inch in diameter,
but the aperture in their centre is not
large enough to admit a pin head. The
machine is now complete. Mr.. Kccly
is giving exhibitions of its force, regis
tering pressure to the square inch, and
IS testing its strength before he applies
the power To large engines. First, he
began To register pressure upon the
gauge, which viii register a pressure of
lI,5OO pounds to the square inch. He
made nine tests, and with hve-ht entieths
suspension Of the water column and ten
pounds of airhcproduccd IL 900 pounds
pressure to the inch, and had 10 shut off
the pressure because the gauge would
moi stand moro. The condensing ap-
paratus. into which the vapor is dis
charged is a cylinder that holds three
gallons of water, and so strongly boltcd
and barred that it looks as if made for
the discharge Of u twenty inch proiec-
tile. 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
representative 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 II month, when he has made
all his experiments with his now com
pletcd machine, Mr.. Kccly will endca-
vor to show the extent Of its power. In
his concluding talk with the Times repre-
sentative, Mr.. keely said. This is a
new substance; n new force, altogether
unknown to science. | don't pretend to
be the inventor; | discovered it by ac-
| could work this machine up
to 10000 horsepower if the metal
would hold. | shall certainly work it
upon u POO horse power engine soon.
The little machine you saw in the office,
up stairs tit is only nine feet long, two
feet wide, and three feet high in its high
est part, Is the most powerful machine
ever constructed. It was built for us 10y
Mr.. Willard, of BordcntQwn, who was
drowned IL few days ago 1t was aquart
maChinc-that IS to say, it used only Il
quart of water: With the condenser
that | have now nearly complete, | will
make that quart of water producca
thousand horsepower motion of suf-
ticlent duration TO run Il steamship
across the ocean