New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-07
A MOTOR IN B-FLAT.
KEELYs FIbDLE-Bow AND TUNING FORKS
VIBRATIONS AND DYNAMIcs-INTER-AToMIc ETHxn
AND A BAND-SAW.

KEELYS FIDDLE-BOW AND TUNING FORKS
VIBRATIONS AND DYNAMIcs-INTgR-AToMIo KrHxn
| AND A BAND-sAw.
PHILADELPHIA, June Ga monthly meeting
Of the directors OF the Keey Motor Company held
to-day, and Mr. Keely gave exhibition OF his myster
invention for the benefit Of the directors and few
writer's for the newspaper press. The exhibition took
place In his workshop No. 1.422 North wentieth
a two-storied building of 1--WE MORE crowded
with Of rusty machinery which at various times
within the last tenyears has figured In experments the
outcome Of which sanguine peaple have and then
expected would be revolutonize scientific knowledge
The dismembered parts well the few examples Of
perfected: apparatus all Of the crudest description
turned out by the veriest apprentice in mechanics
The sreetdoor locked and the the ground
floor dark and evidently used only for storing
heavy castings that are now OF no In ono corner
stands the machine, engine. apparatus with which
Mr.. Keeiy gave his exhibitions few years ago. II has
given place TO another contrvance larger than tho
fountains in which water charged with carbonc acid gas
delivered tot dispensers OF soda water This con-
trivance Mr.. Keely calls inter etherio lberator~
and Il to see 1t set and put to work that the d.
rectors and newspaper invited to walk up
stairs into rooms that less Uttered up with old
machinery and showed few evidences OF use as work.
shops In one room stood small upright boiler ana
engine In which old fashioned power produced
by the Of naphtha fuel Work benches surround
the rooms, turning lathe two, few old TOOLS null
tude of mechanical odds and ends wilderness of
tubes Of small diameter, and bandsaw the inter-
estng objects that met the of thocurious visitors.
The Interesting objects scattered about parts Of the
inter- eheric lberator" and the machines which
to be ths media for making manifest the force which
generated, liberated created.
The witnesses OF the experiments beside the news
paper A. r Edey president OF the companyy
+. G. Green, treasurer C. Schuerman secretary; and
George B. Collier, j. J. Smith, G. X. Dalton. Radclif
Pal drtn Ami N mi of
the board of directors. These had all fseen Mr..
Keey perform his feats before but the less
interested for all that In his doings Most OF them adj
dressed him familiarly as john" but not without
tone OF respect approaching awe In their voices and they
always ready TO hand him wrench or other tool
whenever required They spoke mysterously about
the force and vibrations" but with sort OF con-
sciousness that they In deep water At intervals
one or the other would announce his conviction that
" John had got something there that wonder
fui; they became explicit Mr.. Keely, with
out waste OF words, began TO put his liberator to-
gether He built It up on wooden pedestal topped w
thick plate OF glass; that the might see that
insulated and electricity played part the show.
The base heavy plate Of iron with rods reaching
upwards within which all the other parts fitted until the
top was put aud held with nuts screwed the tops
Of the rods. These intermediate parts were curious
things First a small round disk surrounded by brass
tuDes inches In length. There forty tubes
around many shorter rods
"What do you call this Mr.. Keelyp asked reporter.
"This is resonstor the tubes tuned to chords'
Above this came q plate having on its upper side
radiatng circle of short bits on wire which Mr..
Keey tnked muscay at various stages OF his demon
section OF stoveppe from which projected three or four
brass tubes closed at the outer end and lese9oliEg
Mr. Keely professed to tune his machine. Above this
pa1 was van se Sow the oap
ike the top OF soda fountain and on this was screwed
one above one below and three the sides The cavity
in the she'll Mr. Keely said was three inches in diameter
beng connected with copper tube, another connection
was made from the aperture to small resefyoe .,
tube carried the yaPor 20 "a small :nyaraulIc pressure
n from his mouth Thence the power was conveyed to
lever weighted at distance OF I'VE feet with 200
Mr. Keely having proceeded so far screwed two largo
tuning into the base plato of his iterator They
ssere Was difference of ten in their vibrations H,
pounded on the forks with bit OF rubber tube loaded
TWISTED the cartridge Then he brought third tuning
fork mounted ION resonating Doxzthe familiar instr.
to vibrating with ddae-tow. Next he sucked yigor
S% " sa IN I He sas
test. The scientific reporter dissatisfed because
the humorous suggested that Mr. Kesy was
only blowing out ithe vacuum De hai nrst o1wn M
Mr. Keey said: " b tat"
yes Iuse the chord OF L. nat in the third octave"
"Tne tonic chord OF B-nat with an T. IN IL ="
Eyes sir; the tonic chord with the harmoDics."
Mr. Keely piled his hddlebow on the detached. d.fcrki
thumped the two forks planted In the plate, tinked
the wires opened avail and the lever shot up with
a force which promptly computed by the scientific
the equivalent of pressure OF l36Oo pounda
one Of is phases Aerward was applied rotatins
through one Of its axes, this was
tie engine and when one director held the belt the
pulley with broom another director sawed
into bits S.r.aa Ti,a 70 9SR SaRd,sS Stscen Tasn a
ntss to show that the force" would held
out Finally the gun which was exhibited few months
bewildering experiment was performed to
illustrate sympathetic vibrations" small brass
shell ike the big engine was insulated and placed
across .the room from Mr. Keely tuntng-fork was
placed near It and wave-plate on mysterious box Ia
which Mr.. Keely kept his hand There WAS
no visiple apparatus for revolving tne
globe, yet when the wave , plate u,rrs was
across the room revolyed in lively fashion, brain
weary reporter asked Mr. Keely to relieve him OF the
agony OF trying 10 understand the something Wnat
is ii" he asked, and Mr.. Keey gave him this lucid
answer: -. - IT,.
tion The atomic ether vibrstes all around all tho
molecules of matter There Is magnetic force attached
10 AZ AZ the same time and IL assimilates with
the molecular and atomic aggregations-assm
ates with certain attractive force that IL Is hard 70
tell what IL is; call IL yibratory negative IL done
ACT like a ma agnet drawing metals toward IT, Inere
certain magnetic effect about that causes IL 10 ad-
here by vibraory rotation TO different forms OF natfr
that the molecular atomic etherie etc. The impulse
IA given nv metallic impulses the rotary power tnat
formed by etherc vibrations that H. the force that holds
IL in position
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