Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-05-12
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THE KEELY MOTOR WAKES UP.
correspondence of the Charleston News and Co,

THE KEELY MOTOR WAKES UP.
Correspondence of the Charleston News and Courier.
New YORK, April 26.-It will probabl,
amaze most Of my readers to know that tn
Keely motor matter is just now booming
Some exhibitions recently given before promi
nent New Workers have been described in ont
or two newspapers, and the old story to th'
effect that Keely will soon send an ocear
steamer to England at the expense of buck
ct Of water, has been revamped with addi
tions. went to-day to see Frank G. Green
a well.known business man, who was for year,
at the head of an important iron business ii
this city; four years ago Green failed in bust
ness, the failure being attributed by many
persons to the time and attention he had giver
to the Keely motor, beside which, he Offered
$4,000 worth of the stock among his assets
Strange to say, although the creditors plainly
attributed his misfortune to the Keely motor
Green so argued the matter and so impressed
them with the value Of the motor that they
allowed him $4,000 out of the available assets
with which to continue his motor experiments
with Keely. Since then he has done nothing
but work for the motor. He is the president
of the company, and has an Office in which
hang large drawings and photographs of the
different contrivances out of which Keely
produces his power. He is an intelligent man
in the prime of life, not over. enthusiastic, and
inclined to discourage anything like an inter.
view. He received US courteously, however
and plunged at once into the heart of the
matter by saying:
"Of what practical use is Mr.. Keely's
motor |"
Until two months ago." answered Green,
1--WE never have been able to get steady, re.
liable motion out of our force. That is the
reason why we objected to taking out patents
and telling the secrets of the matter. Once
our secrets are known, dozen inventors will
60 to work devisng machines with which to
put our force under control !; this would take
it out of our hands to considerable extent,
and before publishing our discovery of vapor
generating, we wanted to find an economical
and practical means of applying it to all ma.
chinery. We made five costly and complica-
ted machines, each one requiring years hard
labor, and only succeeded with the fifth.
Was not Elias Howe ten years at the sewing
machine before it would work, and was not
Morse looked upon as lunatic even long af-
ter his first line was up? Now we have got a
motor, the Hy-wheel of which makes one hun
dred revolutions a minute, with power equal
to a twenty-five horsepower engine We
have rugged up saw, and, with our little ap.
paratus, all of which, generator and all, ]
could get into room twelve feet square, we
are running saw requiring 6fteen.horse.
power engine The struggle has been hard
one, but it is over. In July we shall apply
for patents, and then begin to sell rights to
manufacture engines. Within year steam
will be doomed, and, of course, power and
light and heat will be as cheap as fresh air.
Electric light and heat will cost next to moth
ing, as ground out by our machines"
From the talks that I had with Green and
with other gentlemen not directly connected
with the company l am pretty certain that
the following experiments took place in cir
cumstances which rendered the possibility of
fraud extremely slight. At the beginning
of the evenings show last Friday all the
valves and cocks were taken off the machine
and every one was allowed to see that it was
empty; then everything was screwed on
again and a pint of water was poured into
the apparatus Keely's theory is that cold
water can be vaporized without the use of
heat, and that the cold vapor is far more
powerful. than hot steam. In half a minute
after pouring the water in, it was announced
that sufficient pressure had been obtained to
experiment with. In order to test the power
with which jet of the vapor issues from the
generator, six foot lever was arranged over
an aperture of the machine not bigger in
diameter than the lead of pencil and
weighted so that lifting power of $4,000
pounds would be needed to raise it. No
sooner was the word given than the lever
was lifted without trouble. According to
engineers present at the time, no steam or
compressed air could be made to do the same
work. Another demonstration Of the immense
strength Of the machine was shown in the
power with which the hy.wbeel is turned even
when going at slow rate. 1t is well known
that strong man can stop the fy.wheel of a
ten.horse power engine when it is not going
at more than one revolution a minute. Kee-
ly's motor was started at one revolution In
five minutes the wheel just turned and that
was all. A strong man took hold of it, but
had no more effect upon it than an infant
would have upon steam engine; then a
rope was selected in the workshop and tested
by weight of 1900 pounds; it was tied to
beam of the roof and to the fly wheel and
snapped like piece of string The engine
was then started up to one hundred revolu'
tions minute, and at given signal was
reversed instantaneously and started off in
the other direction at the same speed with
out the slightest jar being perceptible. Next
came some experiments with the Keely can.
non, a small bronze gun fourteen inches long
with an inch bore. Iron balls were thrown
against target made of four thicknesses OF
three inch plank, making a foot in all. Each
bullet went through the whole mass of wood
and struck the wall behind. The explosive
force was given to the ball by a current of
the vapor conducted to the cannon by pipe
from the generator. When the cock was
opened the ball sprang from the gun with
terrific force and with q sound about halt
as loud as the explosion Of a powder charge.
Strange to say, there was absolutely no recoil
Of the gun, and after twenty shots in rapid
succession it was found to be perfectly cool.
In order to prevent possibility of fraud by
the introduction of power through the legs OF
the table the generator was then lifted from
the ground by chains; while thus suspended
Keely produced his power. 1t must be borne
in mind that, although Keely has only just
got motor that will work, he has been ready
at all times to show the power of his genera
tor. According to a prominent eng ineer
present on Friday night, Keely would have
needed fifty-horse power engine constantly
at work compressing air in order to have al
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