Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-09-05
KEELY'S NEW MACHINE.
Experiments With $780, 900 Engine--
1000 Pounds Pressure to the Inch.
Philadelphia Times.

Philadelphia Times.
The directors of the Keely Motor
Company met the other evening to wit
ness Keely's experiment with Il new
machine, which weighs more than
twenty tons. 1t has cost 100000 it hav-
ing been two years in process of cree
ton, and was twice reconstructed with
other metal, because the first two choic-
es of the inventor proved not strong
enough to restrain the energy of his va
por. The machine is made of wrought
iron and cast steel 1t consists of spheres,
basins, standing tubes, and small reser-
voirs, with a 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 a shell of
nine inches thickness. The perpen-
dicular tubes that reach from floor to
ceiling, at the other end of the machine,
have 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 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 a pin head. The
machine Is now complete. Mr.. keely
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 will register a pressure of
II IS tn hn 10
made nine tests, and with five-twentieths
suspension OF the water column and ten
pounds of air he produced II 900 pounds
pressure to the inch, and bad to shut Off
the pressure because the gauge would
not stand more The condensing APP
paratus into which the vapor is dis
charged 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 projec-
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 month, when he has made
all his experiments with his now COM
pleted machine, Mr.. Keely will endea-
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; a new force, altogether
unknown to science [ don't pretend to
be the inventor; discoverered it by &C
cident [ could work this machine up
to 10000 horsepower if the metal
would hold [ shall certainly work it
upon 200 horse power engine soon.
The little machine you saw in the Office,
up stairs lit is only nine feet long, two
feet wide, and three feet high in its high
est part, is the most powerful machine
ever constructed 1t was built for us by
Mr.. Willard, of Bordentown, who was
drowned a few days ago. 1t was quart
machine-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 a
thousand horsepower motion of suf-
: ficient duration to run steamship
across the ocean"