The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-11
MUSIC AND MACHINERY.

keely, the man of motor fame, either
possesses enough necrOmantic ability to
fool some of the brightest American
scientists, or else there is some merit
in what he calls his discoveries and in
ventions. If the testimony of Profess
sOr Leidy of the University of Penn
sylvania and president of the Philadel-
phia Academy of Natural Science is to
be accepted, Kelly stands to-day much
in the same relationship to the world
as Calico occupied in the early part of
the Seventeenth century. II may be
that Keely is derided with no more
cause than the illustrious Italian as
tronomer. 1t may come to pass that
future generations will have the laugh
on the boosted Nineteenth century for
ridiculing one of its most wonderful
human productions.
In an interview DIR. Leidy positively
aflirms that Keely has discovered a
new force distinct from magnetism or
electricity. lie declares that with his
own eyes he saw this strange, unknown
force actually overcome the force of
gravity. Stripped of scientific phrase
ology, the new force may he described
as n created by the vibrations pro-
duced by certain sounds. The
test experiment keely made was
what vas announced as being
the propagation and application
of the force through the atmo-
| sphere from one room TO another, with
out other medium of conveyance than
q silk cord. The door into a
little back shop was opened and
a silk cord passed from the transmitter
to a large bronze globe, mounted on an
axis horizontally. The other end of
| the cord was not fastened to the globe,
but to a slender bar of steel supported
on uprights near it. a plate of glass
an inch thick was put between the end
of the resonant steel bar and the globe.
A similar piece of glass was put be-
tween the wall and the other end of the
bar. Glass was put under the uprights
which supported the bar. Glass plates
were also put under the upright which
supported the axis of the globe. Keely
then took a harmonica i'm his hands
and, allowing the silk cord from the
transmitter to pass over the harmonica.
began to sound notes on il. When the
sympathetic Chord as he said, was
struck. the vibratory force, he declared,
was conveyed along the silk cord. The
bronze globe, which vas about fourteen
inches in diameter, began to revolye
about its axis. Faster and faster, rs
Keely played faster, the globe whirled.
Keely now expects To solve the prob
lem of aerial navigation, for he says he
can move a weight up and down In the
atmosphere or v I'm a vacuum. The
harmonica, We take il, is simply amake-
shift, and rs soon as keely gets at il no
doubt he will apply other instruments
of a higher musical order. And as a
large percentage of the population have
no the skill to operate any musical in
strument of a more exalted grade, the
ultimate outcome is the application of
the hand organ. To go sailing through
the air to the accompaniment of
Johnny Get Your Gun" or other choice
operate selection may be II of the
pleasurable advantages of the coming
generation. IL will be a musical as
well as an unitarian age. DIR. Leidy
himself rises from the profundities of
science To declare that some day he
doubts not il will be possible for a
young lady To play on the piano and
set her fathers mill to grinding.
There is this which makes the world
at large skeptical Of Keely's reputed
discoveries: lie does not. like Edison,
bring them into public view. II is all
very well for scientific people to talk
about keely's successes, but other peo-
Pile want something tangible to look ut.
Perhaps keely can satisfy this demand,
but the practical application of his dis.
cnYeries is "A long fima canning