Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-31
KEELY'S BIG ENGINE.
The Motor Man Gives an Exhibition With
His New Machine.
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"NAAAA 'NNANAA MY a"N f
gave an exhibition yesterday afternoon in
his workshop. mt l422 North Twentieth
street, OF his big engine, which has Just
been completed after year Of experiments.
Inventor Keely has been giving mysteri-
Il entertainments to capitalists, scientists
and others for the past dozen or fifteen
years, but none of the former exhibitions
were 81 mysterious OF wonderful rs the
scientific reception of yesterday. Mr..
Keely used all the terms known to sci
erce and q little scientific vocabulary Of
his own in explaining to his audience of
thirty how the thing vas done. The audi
ence, like former audiences, nodded their
heads i'm approval and looked wise and rs
usual knew Just Us much about Keely's Sc
cret when the show was over rs they did
before it began. Mr.. Keely told those
present that il was the first trial of his
newest and biggest engine, and that he
WAS Just experimenting and didn't know
whether the engine would run or not. As
he wiped the trickling perSpiration from
his face he added that his brain was all
confused, but he guessed everything
would 90 all right, rs he had the chord of
a mass and had made two e]iectments of
atmospheric pressure from the biz tube
and had secured an Introductory impulse.
The scientists and capitalists looked mt
each other h~elpleSsly and then smiled ut
Mr.. Kelly. and IA number sud in chorus:
''Oh, yes, certainly
RUNNING Il BIG ENGINE.
Inventor Kecly has heretofore given his
exhibitions with small machines and the
funny looking copper globe torty-eight
inches i'm diameter filled with "rcSOna-
tors. which he used yesterday, Is about
three times larger than any machine he
has ever used. lie said that he could pro
duce 25U-horse power with what looked
more Ikea washing machine than anything
else. \ hum of wOnderment ran through
the little workshop and then Mr.. keely
put rOSin on his tiddle-bOw, tuned the
forks on the drum of his "liberatOr,
connected a copper tube six feet long and
one-eighth of an inch in diameter with a
seven-pint cylinder and then connected an
other coppertubea thirty-second m inch
i'm diameter and ten feet long with the en-
CINE from the Seyen-pint cylinder. The
sound liberated from the drum OF the
'~'liberator'' passed through the first tube
into the cylinder and then into the smaller
tube and into the copper globe OF the new
machine. The bottled chords of the mass
which Mr.. Keely had chosen for his power
Yesterday would run the machine, he said.
Something did run il. The big copper
globe revolyed faster than any fy-wheel or
hit of machinery ever seen in motion Il a
machine shop. The copper globe, forty
eight inches in diameter, made seven revo-
buttons every second, and an independent
belt-wheel at one end of the copper globe,
which Mr.. Keely said ran from the sympa-
thy of sound, made three hundred revOlu-
tons a minute, and its velocity frightened
everybody in the room, including keely,
who danced around the shop and told eve
crybOdy to keep out Of the way.
TREMENDOUS VELOCITY.
The belt wheel and the copper globe
went around so fast that they mode a noise
like the spinning ola huge top. The noise
sounded, too, like the rushing, bowling OF
a furious wind as the copper globe cut the
atmosphere and turned it into dripping
water on the floor underneath. The hot
little workshop was chilledin twominutes,
and then rs Eeely, greatly excited, turned
the cock of the vibrating tube n
the copper globe calm down to almost a
standstin the capitalists and scientists
cIapped their hands and took on their
hats.
"Ain't that fine, gentlemen" asked
Kelly, smiling.
Greatest thing on EARTH" answered
Albert r. Edey, the President of the keely
Motor Company.
Wonderful" came from q dozen
months. and then Mr.. Keely started the
1 conner globe off again with all its fury. III
shook the little workshop from cellar to
ceiling and nttled the windOw-panes-
II can make the screw of a steamer
make six thousand revolutions a minute
with this machine" shouted Mr.. keeiy
through the bowling of the globe n the
belt wheel.
ssThen Wen be able to go to Europe in
one or two days before long," remarked q
man in the audience.
Mr.. Keely stOpped'the engine again and
then made the globe reyoiye IN eltner
direction, lust rs he pleased The bottled
sound in the 'liberatOri was Just as strong
when ne stopped as when he began, ana he
said the machine would u On all 4
without charging the 'liberatorD AGAIN
with a sound from drawing the hddie-oow
over the tuning fork.
Several tests were made with the lever,
which have been described frequently
When the exhibition was concluded L. IL.
TAYLOR, IT., the broker, moved that q vote
of thanks be rendered Mr.. Kelly. Every
body shouted aye and a ringing APP
plause followed, Mr.. Kelly will 60 away
tomorrow for q ten days rest; then he VIII
study out some yibratory sounds, so that
he will have the machine more thoroughly
under his control. He doesn't know how
long it will take him OF what the next VIII
be, buthe said the public would hear nom
him very o
When the visitors had left Mr. Kelly
told the reporter that by laying little tubes
under ground connected with ais engine