Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-08-12
KEELEY'S BIG ENGINE.I
The Motor Man Gives an Exhibition with His
New Machine-SOund the Only Power.
PHILADELPHIA Times

The Motor Man Gives an Exhibition with His
New Machine-Sound the Only Power.
Philadelphia Times.
John Worrell Kelley the motor man,
gave an exhibition yesterday afternoon
at his workshop at ,422 North Goth street
of his big engine, which has just been
completed after year of experimenting.
Inventor Keely has been giving myster-
ious entertainments to capitalists, scien-
lists and others for the past II or Is
years, but none of the former exhibitions
were so mysterious or so wonderful as
the scientific reception yesterday. Mr..
Keely used all the terms known in science
and little scientific vocabulary of his
own in explaining to his audience of 30
! how the thing was done. The audience
like former audiences nodded their heads
| IN approval looked wise and as usual
| knew just as much about Mr.. Keeley's Sc
eret when the show was over as they did
before it began. Mr.. Kelley told them
that it was the first trial of his newest and
! biggest engine, and that he was just ex
perimenting and didn't know whether
the engine would run or not. As he WHIP
ed the trucking Precipitation from his
face he added that his brain was all con-
fused, but he guessed everything would go
all right, as he had the chord of mass
and had made two ejectments of atmos
! pheric pressure from the big tube, and
had secured an Introductory impulse.
| The scientists and capitalists looked al
each other helplessly, and then smiled
at, Mr. Keely, and number said in
chorus:
30 yes, certainly"
Inventor Kelly has heretofore given
| oil, nh 4bo
fundy looking copper globe fo1ty-eight
inches in diameter filled with ''resonators,"
which he used yesterday, is about three
times larger than any machine he has
ever used. He said that he could produce
25O-horse power with what looked more
like a washing machine than anything
! else. A hum of wonderment ran through
| the little workshop, and then Mr.. Kelly
put resin on his fiddle-bOw, tuned the
forks on the drum of his ''liberatOr,"
connected copper tube six feet long and
One-eighth of an inch in diameter with
a seven-pint cylinder and then connected
another copper tube a thirty-second of
an inch in diameter and ten feet long
with the engine from the even-pint cyl
inder. The sound liberated from the
drum of the 'liberator'' passed through
the grst tube into the smaller tube and
into the copper globe of the new ma
chine. The bottled chords of the mass
which Mr., Keely had chosen for his pow
er, yesterday, would run the machine, he
said. Something did run it. The big
copper globe revOlved faster than any fly
wheel or bit of machinery ever seen in
motion in machine shop. The copper
globe, fOrty-eight inches in diameter,
made seven revolutions every second, and
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the copper globe, which Mr.. Kelly said
ran from the sympathy of sound, made
| three hundred revolutions a minute, and
its velocity frightened everybody in the
room including Keely, who danced around
the shop and told everybody to keep out
of the way.
The belt wheel and the copper globe
went around SO fast that they made
noise like the spinning of a 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 under
meath. The hot little workshop was
chilled In two minutes, and then as Keely
greatly excited, turned the cock
of the vibrating tube and made the
copper globes calm down to almost
a standstill the capitalists and scientists
clapped their hands and took off their
hats.
'Ain't that fine, gentlemen?" asked
Keely, smiling.
"Greatest thing on EARTH" answered
Albert R. Edey, the president of the
Keely Motor company.
'Wonderful," came from dozen
mouths, and then Mr.. Kelley started the
copper globe off again with all it's fury
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to ceiling and settled the windoWpanes.
II can make the screw of a steamer
make six thousand revolutions a minute
with this machine,' shouted Mr.. Kelly
through the bowling of the globe and the
belt-wheel.
'Then we'll be able to go to Europe
in one or two DAYS before long," remark
ed man in the audience.
Mr.. Keely stopped the engine again
and then made the globe revolve in eth
er direction, just as he pleased. The
bottled sound in the 'liberator" was Just
as strong when he stopped as when he
began, and he said the machine would
run on all day without charging the lib
orator. again with a sound from drawing
the fddle-bow over the tuning fork.
Several tests were made with the lever.
which havs been described frequently
When the exhibition was concluded L. H.
Taylor, Jr., the broker, moved that vote
of thanks be rendered Mr.. Keely. Every
body shouted 'aye," and ringing ap-
plause followed. Mr.. Keely will go away
tomorrow for ten days rest: then he will
return and study on some Migratory
sounds, so that he will have the machine
more thoroughly under his control. He
doesn't know how long it will take him
or what the next step will be, but he said
the public would hear from him very
| soon.
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Hartford Times.