The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1884-10-03
KEELY AND HIS INTEN-
TIONS.
He Breaks His Long silence
and Talks About the Motor
and the Gum
InllSQel pOla lreSS-

| "Will you kindly explain, the priuci
pies olEo"r mptor:'' asked the report
stripping the process of all tech,
uical terms, it is SIMPLY this: L take
| water and air, two mediums of differ
emf specific gravity, and produce from,
| them by generation an effect, under
| vibrations, that Hberates from the all
and water all inteT>atom.ic ether. The
energy of this ether is bOundless anC
can hardly be cOmprehended. The
| specific gravity of the ether is abou
four times lighter than that of ny drog'
Ell gas, the lightest gas SO far dfscov'
/ cred"
"In what manner, may 1 Is k, dc
you apply this force to your inven'
| tons, to your mOtOr-gun, for in.
stance?" was the next inquiry directed
to Mr.. Keely.
81 can best answer you intelligentiy
by explaining tne operations of the
gun | used at SANDY Hook" was the
reply. cit was breech-lOading rifle,
weighing 500 pounds. 1t was especial
ly constructed for me at the iron
works of Morris, flasher d Go. 1t was
four feet long and had a fOur-inch
bore. On Wednesday last 1 charged
my tube-a tive-gallOn re servoir OF
rought iron, one and a II alf inches
thick-with etheric vapOr. Then |
boxed it up, and did not even test it,
50 certain was l of its power. For
three days before the eXperim ent it
remained untouched in my shop. The
process of charging it consume less
Jnau four seconds of time. You could
not guess how much material was
used in making the vapor," AM the
NJ
the reporter to exercise his ingei luity
At guessing. "a pint OF water" sug-
gCsted the visitor. Mr.. I<eely sI1 lied
more broadly than before. Then he
said, with a twinkle i'll bis eye: "a
pint of water would have been an ex-
quantity. To project TWEEN ty
eaden bullets, each weighing near ~
i've ounces, Ut velocity OF ovet' 800
'ect a second, there was required six
irops of water and about a pint of air.
From this combination [ derived suffi--
,ient force to fire $50 bullets of like
weight as those used. And the most
curious thing about il all is that | 1
ound at the end of my experiments |
hat had increased the power Of my |
ube, instead of diminishing il, just as
r4ce-hOrse needs TO be warmed up |
,efore he can do himself justice. The
initial velocity of the last bullet was
nore than that of the first one. L can
axe that same tube and operate it
mother day"
"Have you ever estimated hepower
f your iuter-atOmic ether ," was
sked.
~ have produced frequently" was
he answer, "a pressure of 10000
pounds to the square inch i'll a quarter
# a second. The process, in reality,
: instantaneous. | have succeeded in
making a vacuum of 81 pounds press
Ire. The greatest vacuum ever before
PRODUCED was of 10 pounds pressure.
)ue is an etheric, the other an atmos~
lheric vacuum. In order to apply the
.tber to any gun, all that is necessary
s to get the chord of vibration of the
yum TO agree with the chord of the vi
orator, The vibrations run through 40
jctaves. / am able to produce in
metal the etheric vibrations in from :
to 20 minutes. The flow thus induced
Is equal to that which it has required
seven years to effect in the steel corD
you were examining little while ago.
Now, as started 70 explain to you, L
allow the interatomic ether to pass in.
to the gun. | then vibrate the gun by
means of blow with maIlet. or
of that kind. The steel coil
attached to the gun increases the in
tensity of the vibrations fifteensfold.
After the ether is introduced into the
behind the projectiIe,. the
liberate it; it expands, and
the bullet is propelled out with great
force, four times as great, as I told
you, as that Of gunpOwder, and that,
90, on low line of graduation. I
nave succeeded in generating q press
nch. and have torn a Shaw gauge to
lfecas under the immense PRESSURE"
'.Ycu, no doubt, in your eXperi-
nents, G.s:oTcI queer EXPRESSIONS otf