Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-25
Price Four Cents.
"The Keely Motor." !"
A Public Exhibition of the Compound En-
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 [From the New York Herald
 PHILADELPH1A, April 22-The first pubIic exhibition of the Keely engine was given this evening, in the presence of large body of New York men, Among others present were J. Nelson Tappan, City Chamberlain of New York; Thomas Rowland, of the Continental Iron Works; George H. Peabody, E.. F. Searls, General John Carrier, secretary of the American Wrecking company; J. J. Smith, Edward W. Denny and others A pri- vate showing was given few days ago be- fore Major Conway, United States ordnance department; Commander Gorringe, United States navy; MT. Blanchard, vice president Erle railway; Commodore Kane, New York Yacht club; President Sayre, of the Lebiph Valley railroad E. J. Randall, Erie railway. and twenty others Gorringe frankly declared that Mir. Keely had thoroughly re- moved the strong prejudices which he had had against both inventor and discovery and that the exhibition was wonderful one. To HefdI0 correspondent Commander Cor rlnge sad Il am amazed at what have seen It is certainly one of the most re- markable curiosities have ever looked uDon and appears bona ffde"
 Io-nlght's exhibition was very extended one The two parts of the motor" called the generator and the ''engine," stand in separate rooms on the second floor of building on Twentieth street. in the vicinity or Girard College. Without expressing any oplnlon whatever regarding the scientific principles alleged to be involved a simple narrative Of the evenings occurrences may be set down as follows
 CURIOUS EXPERIMENTS.
 When the visitors, almost completely fill ing the front room, had been seated they saw before them an odd looking machine. huilt of steel, that shone like mirror. The only de. scr1pt1on possible to give, without an ilustra- t1on to accompany 1t. is that it is wholly un- like any other collection of globes and tubes that has ever been exhibited The first act was to remove every cock and tube ostensi ply to show that the apparatus was emntv Lights were placed underneath it, and the visitors were invited to look into and through the various chambers. All the plugs and at tachments having been replaced, one of the company drew S lass of water from the hy- drant and poured the contents into half a dozen funnel topped tubes and in exactly twenty nine seconds force was generated sufficient to raise six-foot lever lone inch fuIcrum), upon which were hung 700 pounds Of iron. The pressure was asserted to be 15, ,OO0 pounds to the square inch The vapor said to create this pressure was then stored in steel cylinder about thirty inches long and five inches thick, through the centre of which is stretched a piece of piano wire. The vapor thus confined was then further ''vivified'' by external vibrations of great energy obtained from a tuning fork of immense size. This done, a long tube of very constructed orifice, was attached to this steel chamber to form the connection with the engine in the rear room. Thither, then, all the visitors moved. The engine is called ''compound' one, which is explained to mean that it can be worked with equal effect by positive ors negative energy" After few cocks had been opened the ''sirophone" contained in one of the drums began to roar, and the shaft carrying a belt wheel began to revolve with great velocity. The whirring sound (much resembling the rising of a flock of quaiD gradually became regular and har- monlous. and the engine settled down to reg ular speed of about sixty revolutions minute. Some curious experiments were then made to exhibit what was denominated ''vibra- tory energy" The revolutions of the engine were increased or diminished at will by Mr Keely striking an iron disc a gigantic tun- ing fork. or drawing bow over tightly stretched steel wire. The change from the negative to the positive energy" was made, resulting in an almost instantaneous reversal of the engine. This reversal Mir. Keely de- clared, could be made at the very highest ve- locity without breaking anything A brake specially made with wooden lining, was then applied to the belt wheel with 8 leverage of five feet, and the weight of two of the heaviest of the party, but no perceptible diminution in the speed resulted Many other strange experiments with the vapor gun and other appliances of the alleged in- vention were given, after which the party separated.
 The experiments lasted three hours and were in every way successful 4 vote of thanks was given Mir. Keely on motion of Mir. Tappan. The party returned to New York on the midnight train.