Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-26
1.-THE KELLY MOTOR.
A Public Exhibition OF the Com
pound Engine.
egraph 10 the New York Herald

By Telegraph 70 the New York Herald
PHILADELPHIA, April 22-The first
public exhibition OF the Keely engine
was given this evening in the presence
OF lsrve body OF New York men. The
two pAts Of the motor" called the
generate" and the ''engine," stands
in seperate rooms on the second fioor OF
building on Twentieth street, in the
vicinity OF Girard College. Without ex-
pressing any opinion whatever regard
ing the scientific principles alleged to be
involved, simple narrative oil the eve
ning's occurrences may be set down as
follows:
CURIOUS EXPERIMENTS.
When the visitors, almost completely
filled the front room, had been seated,
they saw before them an odd-looking
machine, built OF steel, that shone like
mirror. The only description possible
10 give, without an illustration to &C
company it, is that il is wholly unlike
any other collection OF globes and tubes
that has ever been exhibited. The first
act was to remove every cock and tube
ostensibly 10 show that the apparatus
was empty. Lights were placed under
meath it, and the visitors were invited to
Loo into and through the various
chambers. All the plugs and attach
ments have been replaced, one oil the
company drew a glass OF water from the
hydrant and poured the contents into
half a dozen funnel'topped tubes, and
in exactly twenty-nine seconds force
was generated sufficient to rise q six.loot
lever (one-inch fulcrum), upon which
were hung 700 pounds OF iron. The
pressure was asserted to be Is, 000pounds
to the square inch. The vapor said to
create this pressure was then stored In
a 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 "viyidfied" by external
vibrations of great energy obtained from
a tunlng-fork of immense size. This
done, long tube, OF very CONSTRUCTED
orifice, was attached TO this steel chamber
10 form the connection with the engine
in the rear room. Thither, then, all the
visitors moved. The engine is called a
compound" one, which is explained
20 mean that sit can be worked with
equal effect by positive or negative en-
ergy." After few cocks had been
opened the "spirophone" contained in
one of the drums began to roar, and the
shaft carrying a belt-wheel began to
revolve with great velocity. The whir'
ring sound (much resembling the rhing
of flock OF quail gradually became
regular and harmonious, and the engine
settled down TO a regular speed OF atout
sixty revolutions per minute. Some
curious experiments were then made to
exhibit what was denominated "vi.
bratory energy" The revolutions OF
the engine were increased or diminished
at will by Mr.. Keely striking an iron
disc or a gigantic tuning fork or draw.
ing bow over tightiy-stretched steel
wire. The change from the negative to
the positive "energy" was made, result
ing in an almost instantaneous reversal
of the engine. This reversal, Mr.. keely
declared, could be made at the very
highest velocity without breaking any
thing. A break, specially made with
wooden lining, was then applied to the
belt wheel with a 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
invention were given, after which the
party separated.