Daily Republican., 1884-10-15
KEELY'S MOTOR.


A1 AnA1 OF4A4VAs
John w. Keely, the inventor, 70 mt
~ gave private exhibition o. ths
IpIwer of his mysterious motor in th,
Ipres ence Of prominent New York capi.
isslists, who came over to witness tbs
departments upon the invitation o T..
q. Green, the President of the * ely
Motor Company. The result of che
Iexperiment, was very satisfs0tory, :,
slthough they were but reproduction
Iof previous tests made by Mr.. Kee y in
the presence of the directors of t1e
Motor Company.
In his first experiment. Mr.. Keslv
charged his generator with two z .ble.s
lof water, which he injected ito the RES
] ervoir by means OF his mouth. In lses
tnan o sec. hecharged the receiver with
the etheric vapor. He co ma ,ca 81
the force through long. .lender. hcl-
low brass tube 20 , pistsn cap.Au . OF
withstanding = pressure OF %, ,OoO DO nds
to the square inch. The piston opera
ted lever upon one end Of which was
big iron ball weighing $40 pounds.
With one expulsion of the Va, or IN
great weight was lifted a- eas,,y 40
though 1t were . feather M. X .-ly
then added to the long arm Of tn tsver
another iron ball weighing liz D ,ua..s.
making the total weight $50 . ,nn IL
A second expulsion of vapor was made
in two seconds, by simply turning .
ssopcock on the generator, and the Two
balls silently moved upward, sho ing
that the vapor was exerting II ths pio.
ton force Of II, 730 pounds TO the "a uars
inch. Two gentlemen OF the party then
stepped on the long arm Of the le, er
and were also easily lifted M. the pres
sure sho wn 1t the piston being over 16.
OJ0 pounds to the square inch.
Mr. Uheeiy's next experiment wao
with the motor gun he recently used It
Sandy Hook. The first bullet, Of lead.
nearly an inch in diameter, was pro-
lccted through two blocks OF wood
each threeinches thick and placed ono
feet apart. The holes in the wooden
Darricade were rs clean as though bored
by an auger. The barrel of the gun
was not heated by the projection of the
missiles Several Shots were fired and
the bu ilets were fiattened out as big ~
saucer and as thin as paper against
q steel barricaLe. Some of the Gentle
men present we're afraid the gun would
burst, So great was the power of pro-
pus'on developed, and sought refuge
behind the large motor as yet uncom-
pl-ted.
The third experiment was with the
small fifteen horse power motor. The.
connection with the motor and the
generator was made only after con-
siderable delay, it being found neoessa-
ry to do considerable soldering OF the
joints In the tube lea ling from ono
machine to the other. Finally, shortly
before midnight, this was ccomrlisneG,
the etheric vApor was turned on and
the motor moved Oft as easily aud re-
gularly rs if operated by q steam en-
gine. Mr.. Keely regulated the rsyo-
lutions at will. Efforts were mad, 10
stop the revolutions of the motor by
neaus OF an iron crowbar, but were
without effect. The motion was not
perceptibly affected. In many respects
1t was the most successful exhibit on of
the motor ever given. A very high and
uniform rate of speed was shown, and
IL was demonstrated by scisntific I, sts
that the power developed was enor-
mous-sufficient to operate with equal
ease QUO horse power machine. The
gentlemen present we're delighted with
the experiment
The final exhibition was tat of An
Ingenious contrivance devised by Mr.
Keely to display q simple appiicat ON
OF the eth ric vapor. 1t consists simply
OF rod OF metal running from q very
small receiver. One end OF the rod was
placed against the support OF q hollow
brass globe tet on an axis By hitting
the receiver and intensifying the vi ra-
tion over the rod the hollow globe " as
made to revolve SO rapidly AZ tu pro-
duce sound like that made by buzz
saw: Three cheers were given for Mr..
Keely at the end ofthe experiment
The Scientific American of last v eek
In speaking of the recent test in New
YORK, says Another chapter in the
history of this time worn, stock iobbine
keely Motor deception was lately com.
pleted by q public exhibition at Sandy
Hook, n. j., on September 2Oth, of \
pretended etheric force gun but
which in reality, to our eye, was
nothing more than a clumsy air gun.
from which a few bullets were dis
charged.
Keel y was present and performed
as juggler. much to the satisfac sion of
the assembled crowd of New York
stock brokers, who seemed to relish the
Keely jargou. and the muddy clavity of
MS absurd explaqations. In bries
Keely aud his assistants brourLt 10
the ground small air gun, with a owl.
lnder charged with compressed air.
The cylinder was connected by Q small
pipe with the bree Oh of the gun. while
sAtA uioA0 VI udTu anu 6OIt ruOO0r form.
Cd partition between the brsoch Air
chamber and the bullet.
The performance consisted frst. in
the turning OF the air fAwcet by Keely.
'hen while the air was flowing through
the small pipe into the air chamber. ho
struck on the rear part of the gun with
mallet, by which he pretended to
vibrate the etberic vapor. By tue time
be had got through with this in xgle the
lir pressure had accumulated behind
he disks sufficiently TO burst them, and
then the bullets weie..driven out.
Keely then turned OFF the air, and
prepared another charge. By varying
The thickness of the disks, the veloo ity
IF the bullets could be increased or
diminished az desired TO suit tue Gre.
1ulity of the audience and by this
IuRgle 1t WAS pretended that the pres.
sure of the etheric force" increased
with discharging the gun. The day
following the exhibition the daily
papers contained laudations of Keely's
great success, and the stock of The
keely Motor Company was thereby
'ent up from cents on dollar, to I5
,ents, and the money Of the deludea
was thus successfully net
ed