, 1884-10-17
"ETHERIC VAPOR.'
Keely Explains His Invention to a
Reporter.
The Inventor Satisfied with His
sandy Hook ExperiDeHts-An-
other Tert Promised 90 the
Public soon.


EA HN' AAHN NANAA liz htW ~ hhAA
on saturday in the presence OF II party Of
government officials At Sandy Hook. a
satsfet expressions was on his face. A re-
porter Of The Press was cautiously examining
a vEporic vibrator that lay ON the table in
the middle Of the room, Laying down his
paper the inventor wheeled around in his
chair, and, after studying for a moment,
broke the silence that he has so persistently
maintained, and, for tho first time In several
year. communicated his thoughts 70 a
Newspaper man. MY experimenting days
ure over. he said. This will develop my
active enterprise. Complete success Is very
near at hand My experiments at Sandy
Hook demonstrated that my yaporic force is
"a fact and not "A mere creation Of fancy, as
many persons have persisted in declaring. /
nm now able 10 produce a power Of projer4
ton thrice greater than that Of g~unpowder,
there is no limit To this force. My motor
VIII be completed in less than two months,
and then | will then make a public exhibition
Of It's wonderful powers, which are already
In position 10 manifest themselves. The
adaptation Of my force TO gunnery Is posi-
lively assured. can apply It with moro ef-
foot than that OF n~itro-glyoerine.
The inventor paused and took out OF a
sachel what looked like a policeman's billy.
This, " he said, IS what call a vibrator. Il
4 "a hollow coil Of steel Of the finest quality.
In one end is a hollow orifce. by which it Is
attached TO the germ. It Is the most peculiar
piece Of steel in the world. Listen" and the
inventor tapped one end Of the coil twice.
sharply. upon the floor and held it to the ear
Of the reporter. dc you hear anythingT'
Tho reporter did hear something. The steel
cone was humming in a very high key. The
noise was like that of a tuning fork. Taking
The cone IN his hand, tho reporter found that
t WIS quivering from one end TO the other.
Mr.. kesly continued. -Ithums. donit III No
other piecs OF metal in the world OF similar
shape will hum at all. See II 1t does and
he tapped another hollow bar Of steel on the
floor and held II to the reporters ear. Not
a sound was audible, not a culver
could he detected. That steel bar, said Mr..
Keely, "was the beginning OF my motor.
1y means Of 1t / stumbled on my discoveries.
For seven years l have kept flowing through
that core a stream Of etheric vapor. The
action OF the vapor has been to affect the re-
lations Of the molecules and to alter TO a cer-
tain extent their conditions. For this reason
IL has become subject TO these vibrations,
which are excited in the manner l have
Shown you. Thero has been no apparent
outward change in the steel. Its weight Is
the same MS before, but it is in the process Of
silent dissolution. Were / to pass through II
for twenty years longer, this etheric vapor,
" NhNtu ciuuAple INTO nOtnulRnehH, De DunA-
formed into the most impalpable dust, or
whatever you may choose TO call 1t. The
steel core is necessary FOR the PRONUNCIATION
Of the projecting force OF tho etheric vapor
when applied 10 gunnery. When the vapor
was first allowed to How through the core of
steel, the vibrations were scarcely audible.
Gradually they increased Ia volume, and the
noise became more and more audible. The
vibrations through It have averaged 800, 900
pur fecond. II has sufficient force to operate
a ieO-horse power engine.
stripping the process Of all technical
terms, it is simply this; 1 take water and air,
two mediums Of different specific gravity
and produce from them by generation an ef.
feet under vibrations that nberstes from he
mir and water an ~interRtomic ether. The
energy Of this ether is boundles and can
hardly he comprehended. Tho specific grav-
ity Of the ether is about four times lighter
than that OF hydrogen gas, the lightest gas 50
far discovered. ! can best answer you intel
licntly by explaining the operations Of the
gun used at Sandy Hook. II was "A breech-
loading rifle weighing 500 pounds. It wa
specially constructed for me. On Wednesday
lat | charged my tube-a five-gaIlon rs5er-
vuir Of wrought iron, one and IL half inches
thick-with eiheric yapor Then l boxed il
up and did not even test il, | was so certain
- - kFftAN IA Jul hTAkAA III tAH
pertinent it remained untouched in my shop
The process Of charging it consumed les
than four seconds Of time. You could not
guess how much material was used in max
ing the vapor, and the inventor smiled and
paused 10 allow the reporter TO use his in,
scnuity at guessing.
"A pint Of water, - suggested the visitor.
MIR. kcely smiled mo.e broadly than lie
fore. Then be said with n tremble in his ey (!
"A pint OF water would have been an extrl y.
agant quantity Toproject twenty leaden hui
lebs, each weighing nearly five ounces, at q
velocity Of over fifty feet a second. there was
required six drops OF water and about a pint
of air. From this combination | derive sufi.
cient force 70 fire twenty bullets Of like
weight as those used. The most curious thina
about IL all is, that l found, at the end of my
experiments, that / had increased the powell
in my tube instead OF diminishing It Just
as a race horse needs to b. warmed up befoft
he can do himself justice; the initial velocity
Of the last bullet was more than that OF the
first one. l can take that same tube and nu.
eIate II another day
Have you ever estimated the power of
your inter-atomic ether was asked.
Il have produced frequently was the an
swer, "a pressure OF 10000 pounds 10 the
square inch in a quarter Of a second. The
process in reality is instantaneous l have
succeeded in making n vacuum of thirty
one pounds pressure. Tn greatest
vacuum ever before produced was Of fifteen
pounds pressure. One is an electric, the
other an atmospheric vacuum. In order H.
apply the ether 10 any gun. oil that is necos-
sary is TO get the chord OF vibration OF The
gun to agree with the chord Of the vibrator.
The vibrations run through forty octaves. |
am able to produce in metal the etheric
vibrations In from seven to twenty minutes
The fow thus induced Is equal to that which
1t has required seven years TO effect in the
steel core you were examining a littls while
ago. Now, as l started to explain TO you. ]
allow this inter-atomic ether to pass into the
gun. l then vibrate the gun by means OF a
blow with a mallet, or anything OF that kind.
The steel coil attached to the gun incrpasx
the intensity OF the vibrations ffteenfold.
After the ether Is introduced into tho weapon
behind the projectile the vibration.
hborate il and it expands, and tho
bullet is propelled out with great force.
four times as great, as / told you, as that
q gunpowder, and that, too, on q
low line Of graduation. 7 have succeeded ii
generating a pressure II 56,oOo pounds to the
inch. and l have torn n Shaw gauge 10
pieces under the immense pressure. 1 have
1t always pays to go to Polack before
buying.
pulmonary Consumption.