The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-01

nected with some motive power located else
where. When all the soldiers, professors and
doctors had poked canes under the generator and
scrutinized its mechanism to their hearts con
tent, Mr.. Keely proved by blowing through it
that it was perfectly empty. Then he boldly
took several swallows of Schuylkill water into
his mouth. to the horror of DR.. CressOn, the
chemist. Grasping a rubber tube connected
with the small stand pipe of the generator, Mr..
Keely injected the S|chuylkill water from his
mouth into the machine, and DR.. Cresson APP
peared relieved. The inventor then turned sew
eral stop-cocks, made what he calls an expulsion
of vapor, and announced that the generator was
charged for the entire work of the afternoon.
With a turn of the wrist Mr.. Keely next made
an expulsion into a strong tube of drawn copper,
which impinged upon the lower end of a one
inch piston set in a strong cylinder. A heavily
weighted lever, with a multiplication of fifteen
to one, pressed upon the head of the piston.
There was a momentary rush like the sound of
escaping steam and the lever, with its ponder
GUS weight. jumped "a though Hercules himself
hadStruck 1t. A little calculation made by Mr..
Davis proved that the turn of the inventors
wrist had evolved and applied a dynamic or elias
tic force showing an energy of from 1000 to 20,
600 pounds to the square inch, Then Mr.. Col
lier and Lieutenant Xalenski climbed upon the
end of the ponderous bar and added their weight
to the levers burden. Mr.. Keely gave the PTS
ton another charge and the lawyeran and lieutenant
were suddenly shot up among the rafters of the
low ceiling.
I'LL fulVV tAAehb AtA lo q EONNA
there, y said the Lieutenant, as he knocked the
dents out of his hat and brushed the cobwebs
from his mustache and goatee.
The inventor laughed, took another copper
tube in his calloused fingers and connected the
generator with his vibratory gun. Thu gun has
been greatly improved since its last exhibition
two weeks ago. Mr.. Boeckel, Keelys Teutonle
Sancho Panza, has transferred it into a breech-
loader and turned it about, right end foremost
upon its carriage. 1t is now a very respectable,
though dlmlnutive, piece of ordnance. Captain
Mlchaells, the ordnance expert. adjusted his eye
glass critically and pronounced the gun an eX'
cellent model. Then he and his tellow-othceis
dlscreetly sought refuge behind the gigantic
resonators of Mr.. Keely's big engine and watched
the firing as they layin ambush. Several leaden
shots were driven through u pair of three-lnch
hemlock planks placed a foot apart, each ball
drilling a clean hole and hattening out against a
steel plate behind the wooden targets.
Captain Van Reed, who has endured all kinds
OF calumny and abuse at the hands of his fellow
otfcers because he invested a small fortune In
heely motor stock and perslsteutly held 1t, scat
tered radiant smiles about him and wlnked at
Captain Mlchaelis and Lieutenant alenski with
the ar OF a man who feels himself indicated.
Mr., heely next carried a third tube through the
tloorlng into the room above, where he connected
1t with his smaller vibratory engine. Considera-
BILE time was'lost in soldering the joints, and
several of the visitors became impatient and
were getting into a heated discussion about the
law OF dlfferential plstons, when somebody sug-
gested that they take a little exercise on the OPP
posite corner. Five minutes after the party re-
turned the engine was running smoothly.
But Boeckel had made a bad joint at one Of
the angles in the tubing, and just as the wheel
assumed a strong and steady rotary motion
there was a sharp explosion and an ominous
sound of escaping vapor. The wheel stopped
and the engine gave a lurch and appeared to
stand up on end. captain Mlchaells stepped
aside so suddenly that he droppedhis eye glasses,
and Mr.. Boeekel threw up his arm instinctively
Mr.. keeiy simply turned the stop-cock. and re
stored confidence by remarking: The enormous
pressure has burst the copper tube at the joint.
l can't run the engine any longer to-day. lsee |