River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-04-08
WHAT KELLY CLAIMS.
He Says the Long Disputed Problem
has been Solved.
Philadelphia Record.

Mr.. Keely, the protector of the much
talk ed-of motor bearing his name stated
to a reporter that he expects to com.
plete his labors on his new vibratory en-
CINE in about six weeks. and then he
will Immediately put it to practical use.
At that time he proposes to saw ten
cords of wood, the vaporic power to
drive the engine to be obtained from
five drops OF WATERFALL drop for each
cord.
In regard to his Kew machine Mr..
Keely says: 81 did not invent tnis, for |
am not an inventor bat a discoyerer.
By the merest accident, about two
years ago, while making experiments,
| found that to drive the ordinary Dis
ton engine required too much and too
heavy machinery. l found an engine
was wanted of a different construction,
and the idea occurred to me to build the
vibratory engine, which is now nearly
completed"
"Then you think you have achieved
SUGGEST" was asked.
Il don't think i'll have achieved it."
replied Mr.. Keely with confident air.
Mr.. Keely then explained the cause
of his delaying the operations for six
weeks yet.- He said that the positive
and MIGHT'VE motions of the shaft of the
the engine were so nearly
equal that it was necessary to graduate
them so az to have the motions har-
monious. He was at last overcoming
the trouble, and when he accomplished
this the engine would be finished.
An inspection of tine machinery was
made by the reporter, and it was seen
to be totally different than what was
found in the place two years ago. The
generator. or multiplication, has been re-
duced in size SO that now it is shapely,
and occupies space of about two six
feet in length, two feet wide and five
feet in height. Leading from this TO
the generator at the engine In another
room, was pipe about the thickness of
extra sized telegraph wire, led to the
engine. This latter is curiosity in it.
self. 1t resembles in appearance a
small base drum laid upon its side.
This contains the vibratorv machinery.
A shaft extends through it, upon which
is an eight-inch face pulley wheel. To
this the betting is attached. The engine
occupies space OF about four feet
square. This Mr.. Keely claims, has
power of ten horse.
At the reporters suggestion he set the
engine in operation. The wheel moved
at the rate of thirty revolutions per
minute, with steady. regular motion.
Mr.. Keely remarked that he had full
control of his vaporic power, and could
stop or start the engine in second,
which he did. In the room was an APP
paratus for registering the revolutions
per mi. ute, the machinery OF which is
so nicely adjusted to the action of the
sound that by merely drawing violin
bow across a tuning-fork it was set in
motion, the wheels revolving so rapidly
that it was feared for a time that they
would tear the machine to pieces.
1t was stated by Mr.. Keely that f IL
sons light would not prove success un-
til it was attached to one of his engines,
when a steady light could be obtained.
He holds that it is impossible with any
other engine. Ee also said that his
engine would be in use twenty years be-
fore it was fully understood, and that
years lecture would be necessary to ex-
plain all the parts.