The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-12
THE KE ELY MOTOR.
a Mechanic Alleges That He Has Dis
covered Keely's Secret.
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NEW YORK, July 6.-There has probably
never before been any inventor who has
succeeded in main tanning an alleged in
ven-ion a perfect secret for so long time,
and yet obtained su continuous supply
of money from his supporters as has j. W.
Keely Of Philadelphia, the proprietor and
sole inventor of the Kelly motor, for
which such great things have been prom
ised. The reason for this, as for the ap-
pa ent success of many other South sea
bubbles lies in the personality of the
scne ner.
Mr. Kelly knows the value of his secret.
Even his workmen have never seen the
whole of his achine; no one man, excep
keely, has been present at the erection of
1t all; no other man, ne thinks, has ever
seen oil the drawings, all the details or all
the parts. The secret is still inviolate n.
But there has been patient worker for
many years gathering scraps Of infOrma-
ii N, which put together, has at last brou yht
the principle t. light AT first the work
was done TO ferret out the cret; but as the
years rolled By and no practical result was
produced, the gathering of the details
dropped to the insigniicance of a search Cor
curiosity.
This patient worker Is a machinist living
on Locust street, in Philadelphia, who has
been employed by Kelly, off and on, for
eighteen years. In that time he has made
copies of every drawing and sketches of
every part that has come under his obser-
walton.
For the benefit of the lay reader few
words of explation in regard to one Of the
funda mental principles of mechanics is nee
essary. The principle upon which all hy
draulic apparatus works is that of supply
ing a st cam OF water or other liquid
under pressure into cylinder cot
| tanning movable piston, against
which the pressure acts. and this pressure
is equal for equal areas in every direction.
Hence each square inch Of the internal sur
face of the cylinder is subjected to the same
pressure. Thus, by forcing water before a
| plunger one inch in diameter with a pres
sure of one pound, a pressure OF 100 pounds
is exerted upon g piston in large cylinder
that is ten inches in diameter. But the mo-
ton of the large pistonis only one nundrcth
as fast as that of the pump plunger.
1t seems that away back in the sixties,
Mr.. Keely was standing beside an hydraulic
press. and noticing the enormous pressure
| developed by so little effort, conceived the
idea of APP lying this great force to tho
driving of mot II whe high speeds and
immense power are reQuired. He was ig O.
rant Of the fundamental laws of hydraulics,
| and fell into tho error that has led so many
other inventors into the tangled paths of
| perpetual motion.
Confident at first Of mis- discovery, and
really believing that ne had a good thing,
| he brought out his Louisville motor So
| cured the backing Of capitalists, and his
! company was born. B It being based in
| opposition to all physical Avs, the machine
! failed to work, the money supply was
stopped and the scheme was at an end.
! Tie then came to Philadelphia and set to
/ work to produce a machine that would
/ simply develop an eaor nous pressure with
| a very siga5 expenditure OF fuel. This
! done he orga izad his e. npa y.
/ The machinist who mas furnished the in
! formation upon which this expose is based
was one of the first employed in the con-
| struction of the motor, and says that though
! the external form OF the machine has been
! changed many times there has been 10 ma
/ terial c ang- il the Iternal construction.
| The Machi 10 is simply one that will devSiOp
/ an immeAse s attic pressure like that of a
! blilding upon its found atoms but which
/ cannot be utilized for the perfor nance
! Shortly after the appearance of the sta q
/ ment that keely of Philadelphia and Huss
! OF Louisville were one and the sans person,
/ the mac ist from whom this If rma Ion
4 was obtained offer it TO the directors Of
the keely Motor Company. But through
! disagreement, in which the voluble to que
| of Mr. keelI took an active part. ard
| wherein he SO soothed q agita,ed breasts
of his managers that they refused
/ to pay for tue information offe I'd
/ them. The machinist of Loo lst
| street withdrew from the negotia-
ton and nov for the hrst time makes public
The true inwardness the Kelly m tor.
! clearly showing that while its visible mani
festatiols are strictly III accorda zee with
well-k owa mechanical laws and are no-
governed by the occult forces # etheric
energy a2d MIGRATORY lntluelc they are Of
such q character that eY can never be
utilized as motive power for machinery,
aud stand upon precisely the same unda-
Ii Il in at respect as the futile attempts TO
procure . perpetual motio1.
A Strong Recommendatio -Foreman-
| 7 want to aunDIOU cO "A r.