National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-09-24
KELLY AND HIS MOTOR.
Something About the Mysterious Forco II
Chains TO Have Dlseoyered.

Claims to Have Discovered.
In an interview with Keely, the Philadelphia
inventor, says: "My motor will DO completed
In less than two months and / will then make
public exhibition Of its wonderful powers,
which arc already IN apOsitlon TO manifest
themselves. The adaptation of my force TO
gunnery is positively assured. | can apply y
with more effect than that of nitro.glycerine.'
The inventor took ont of q satchcl what
looked like pollceman's billy. This he
said, lis what call vibrator. II isa hollow
coil of steel of the finest quality. In one end
Is an oriiiCo, by which 1t Is attached TO the
motor gun. IL Is the most peculiar piece OF
steel In tho world. Listen" and the inventor
tapped one end of the coil twice sharply upon
the floor and held II to the car Of the reporter;
do you hear anything, The reporter did
hear something. The steel cone was humming
almost inaudibly, In u very high key. The
noise was like that OF q tuning fork. Taking
the core In his hand the reporter found that
Mr.. Keely continued ut huns, don't ~ No
other piece Of metal In the world Of similar
shape, will hum At all. See If 1t does and
he tapped another hollow bar of steel on the
sound was audible, not a culver could be
detected. THAT steel bar" said Mr..
kcely, 'was the beginning OF my
motor. BY means Of II stumbled
upon my discoveries. For seven
| years I have kept flowing through that
| steel core "A stream of ctheriC vapor. The aC-
| ton of the vapOr has been to affect the rcla-
| lions of the molecules, and TO alter, to r Ger
| tain extent, their conditions For this reason
| II has become subject TO these vibrations,
| which arc excited in tho manner / have
shown you. There has been no apparent out
ward change In the steel-its weight Ia the
same as before, but II Is in the process of silent
| dissolution. We're l TO pass through II Tor
| twenty years longer this cthoric vapor II
| would cruinhle into nothingncss, be trans
| formed into the most impalpable dust, or
i " NnI m al
| steel core Is necessary for the PRONUNCIATION OF
| the projecting force Of the Ctheric vnpor when
/ applied TO gunnery, When the vapor was
| first allowed to flow through the core OF steel
the vibrations were scarcely audible. Grad.
unlly they increased In volume, aud the noise
became more and more audible. The yibra-
tons through 1t have averaged 100000 per
| second. II has sufficient force TO operate u
| 5O0horse power engine.
stripping the process Of all technical terms,
| II Is simply this: | take water and air, two
mediums of different specific gravity, aud pro
| duce from thcm by generation and effect, un.
| der yiborations, that liberatGs from the air and
| water nm intcr-utomic ether. The energy OF
this ether is bOundlcss and can hardly be-
oomprchended. Tho specific, gravity of the
ether Is about four times Lighter than that OF
hydrogen gas, the lightcst gas so far discovered
| have produced frequently pressure of TO-,
| 900 pounds to the square inch. The process,
| IN reality, Is instantaneous. have succeeded
tnmaking vacuum of thirty
ever before produced was of ilneer
pounds pressure, one Is an cthrciC
the other, ar,atmospheric vacuum.
| 81 have thrown sOvcn-ounCc projcCtilC
| through Castiron plate threecights of ar
inch In thickness. ! have propelled Il leaL
bullet through iour'inch plank of wood. II
this instance, after passing through the wood
so great was the force of its progress, II fiat
tened itself out the size Of plate, and rs thir
rs II wafer, against Il steel obstacle placed II
the line of It's flight. On another occasion,
lead bullet, aiter ing fired through board
became disintegrhtcd and was shOwered owe
the room in particles no larger than the heat
OF pin.
by attaching n steel coil to u resonator,
body of n violin, and drawing rosincd boy
across the coil, | can produce vibrations q
such character ms to break glass as If 1t has
been struck by Il hammer."
" expect to be able to- enply the ether VI
brations to tclegraphy. experiments
on 5000 feet Of wire, AM a iGhth of
second have transmittt " ~ end o
the wire n force sufciel.v rs make holes Il
paseboard. confidently assert that | ca
intensity the vibrations so as to disturb TIA
molecules in wire 70, 900 miles In length, an
that in Il second of time. The vibration
travel with extreme velocity. The operation
of the wire In telegraphy Is simply this II
passed into d resonntor ut one end, which
attached TO II vibrator. In this way the yibra
tions are induced and promulgated.
My large motor is completed and onl
needs to be adjusted | vi give public ties
inside of two months. Inavc filed caveats O
them patented. ] am now building one 5OC
horse power engine and one 2JO-horse powe
engine. The latter is completed, except as
the vitaliZlng process"