Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-11-09
NM KEELy's WORKSHOP.
The Mysterious Inveptor Enserssins
Reporter with Some wonders.


The Mysterious Inveptor Ensersstns
n Reporter with Some wonders.
The Boston Globe has printed very Inte.
resting story descriptive Of Inventor Keely's
PHILADELPHIA workshop, OF his marvellous
machines in operation, and OF ell he hopes
| 10 do for the world I'm the way OF inventive
progress. The reporter found the wonder.
worker in sin upper story OF the red-brick
| house. and describes him as about six feet
! tail, strongly built, very muscular in form,
slightly stoop-shoudered, and remarkably
we'll preserved for a man sfxty.odd years
old, who hss spent thirty years in the most
intense aud incesssnt thought aud labor.
OF Mr.. Keely's discovery the writer SAYS
the inventor does not create or generate any
| new, previously. .unexistiug foros. He simply
takes in one OF his experiments the air we
breathe and the water we drink, and By the
concnssion produced by certain musical
sounds or notes he jars and disintegrates
the air and the water-that Is, destroys the
cohesion existing between their particles
and dIssolves them into ether thus setting
| free force which Is said to reside in the
| infnitesimal spaces that separate the ulti-
mate atoms. In future he will discard the
use Of water entirely and operate only with
air.
| On movable wooden stand about three
feet high, which resembled truncated cone
| in front, but which was perfectly hollow, as
| could be seen from behiud, was the strange
piece OF mechanism With which Mr. keeiy is
now conducting his researches. 1t was sus-
pended from \ metallic, erane-like brace
which projected from the top OF the stsnd.
| This instrument or machine or mechgnism
or apparatus or whatever Il il. Mr.. keely
calls bis "compound disintegrss0r," and
there is probably nothing Ike it either
| In the heavens above or the earth
beneath. IL is made entirely OF metal, is
perfectly rQnnd, and looks more like q
wheeI or pulley than anything else. 1t is
about two feet In diameter, with rim some
six inches wide. The whole thing is no big
ger than a cheese-boX. In the centre OF the
apparatus. at lts hub, so TO speak, from
which spOkes or braces extend to the rim, IS
a bore ike that in tue hub Of a carriage
wheel. It's diameter is about one and a halt
| inches. Scores Of steel wire rods, about two
aud a bali inches long, secured at one end
and free to viDrate when struck or snapped,
| looking something like the tongues OF 4
| music-boX, are fastened 10 small metallic cir
cular fraIrCs affixed 10 the body OF the appa-
ratus. Radiating from another and larger
circular frame are forty tubes or keys
screwed into its rim, standing out like mlnia'
ture cannon from the PORTFOLIOS OF fort.
| Innumerable wires in seeming confusion,
KEYS, stops, cylinders, resonant tubes,
prongs, and metallic pieces OF nameess
shapes are all over aud through the appara-
! tus. No drawings, however accurate, would
give one who bad never seen the thing
an exact idea OF how II looks. Complicated
and inscrutsble? The whole apparatus
constructed as 1t IL OF various metals-gold
silver, platinum, copper, brass, and steel-is
turned or "graduaied," and has range ol
$40 octaycs, 50 Mr.. keely asserts.
Taking q solid steel cylinder, about five
inches long and one and one fourth inches
in diameter, Dir. keely placed 1t In th'
centre Of the apparatus like an axle in .
wheel. One end OF the cylinder is covered
with gold-leai roughly laid on. Then the
necromancer seized long horsehair bow
aud drew It across an upright tuning-iorh
standing on the table AZ the other end OF th'
room. There was no means OF connection
between the tuuing.fork and the apparatus
other than the open atmosphere.
"LoOk at the cylinder" cried Mr.. keely
Turning his eyes TO the centre Of the ap
paratus the reporter saw the cylinder in mo-
ton, while all its surroundings were sta
tiOnarY.
"Three hundred revolutions a second
said the inventor, "whirling there I'm space
Just like the earth on its skis, and il wOulC
20 on forever without receiving any new
impetus, as long as the earth reyOyes. II IN,
conditions could remain the same. had
going one time fourteen weeks on stretch. y
lie then went into an adjoining room anC
pointed out steel cylinder about two fee
long resting on two ordinary woodei
horses" This cylinder is about five inche
in diameter and Is nearly solid, bore les
than half an inch ~ diameter runnlnl
longitudiually through the centre. Thi
cylinder has been tested TO bear pressure o
81. 900 pounds per square inch. MIR. Keel,
calls It his "receiyer." IL IS in the bore o
this receiver that the mysterious chang'
OF matter into force takes place. Here Tn
vibrations transmitted from the "disintegra
tor" by means OF a solid wire composed OF al
ternate six.inch lengths OF silver and plati
mum break up or dlslntcgrate the cohesion
existing between the particles OF air an'
water confined in the q receiver" Just a
heat applied TO water overc0mes the cohe
zion Of It's particles.
MIR. keely closed one end OF the are
ceiyer" by means OF a yalve-whee. applied
his mouth 10 the other end, and produced
partial vacuum by sucking out some OF th
air, the result being, OF course, TO rarify th
remaining AIR in the cylinder. Closing tb
"recelver" at both ends he took some wa
ter from the hydrant, poured about tw
lablespOOnfuls into a small reservoir on tol
OF the cylinder and admitted II 10 the cor
through a valve. Then he attached cope
tube, not over one fourth OF an inch Il
diameter and having bore as small as
knitting-needie, 10 one end OF the receiver
and. passing the tube through hoie IN To
floor, ne fastened II 10 q piston presslnl
against the short arm OF lever down stairs
A 550.pound weight was then hung L
the long arm of the Ever by means Of pul
lev, 40 that pressure equal TO about l6,0O'
pounds on the other arm would DO requlret
10 balance this $50 pounds.
Where was this pressure Of 10000 pound
to come frOml | was soon TO see. 1t cam
from those two tablespooniuls Of water an
that moutnful OF air In the cylinder up
stairs.
Mr.. Keely opened the stopcock in the are
eeiyer,v and the ether or yapor which ha
been generated by the vibrations from th
"dlsintegratOr" passed into the tubes lead
ing TO the lever. Going down stairs b
turned the valve-Wheel at the other end O
the tube, the $50 pound weight few upwar'
TO the stop, a. IL fred from O gun, aud on
combined strength could not bring IL down
Mr. Keely then sat on the long arm OF th
lever. adding his 200 pounds to the 81
already there, 80 that the pressure on th
other arm Of the lever must have been owe
%, 900 pounds, and still the lever did no
move. He turned the stOpcoek and tn
weight dropped. He let on the force aga
and the weight asceDded. Then he opene
q valve and let some Of the ether or vapOr .
tie tube escape into the room, which II di
with Kissing sound.
Another Of hr. Keely's experiments wa
30 put the wire around big iron cylinde
weighing 400 pounds, and when the " con
pound Inter.etberic force" had run thrOug
the wire TO lift the cylinder uD on one hnge
and carry It around the room as easily as
it were cork.
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A New Haven lCOnn.l special says
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