The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-16
TWO HOURS WITH KEELY.
Power without COst-Engines which
DO Not Move.

Power without COAt-Engines Mhich
DO Not Move.
The renewed interest I'm Kelly and his
discoveries, which has been awakened by
the recent reports of efforts made by prom
inent parties to control the results of his
labors, has induced the Philadelphia
Ledger to lay before its readers
such facts in relation to the sub
iect as can be legitimately obtain
ed with this purpose a representative of
the Ledger secured an interview with the
inventor at his workshop, the results of
which are here briefly stated:
John w. Koely is 6S years old. although
he looks much younger. lie is large,
powerfully built man. with large head,
square shaver jaw with heavy. dark
side-whiskers, tinged with gray. and dark
eyes which move rapidly. His movements
are nervously quick and his speech Is eX-
tremey rapid, as though 1t could not eaten
up with his thought. lie impresses one
with the belief that he Is absorbed in what
he cabs his lfe-study that time Is snort
and that every nerve must be strained to
accomplish practical results while life re-
mains.
A very little conversation satisfied the
reporter that he must abandon all precon-
ceived notions of natural philosophy II ne
thought TO make any progress IN the sluug
of the new power. The laws OF gravity, as
laid down by Newton; magnetism as Ior-
INFLATED by Faraday, Henry ana oIhSl5'
light and heat, as outlined by Lord kel-
vim and the correlation OF forces haq 70
give way to his mysterious force, Wh!Th
practically creates something OUT on no w
ing If we may unquestlonaDly auopl ING
discoveries theories. - ,,
The reporter soon found hlmseli unapIe
TO follow Keely's explanations OF the az
.t,.fas IN
m5lfarifv with the nomenclature OF the
new science, and asked for somethln6
concrete that would illustrate some ele-
mentary principle. 1t is TO be taken Tor
GRANTED at first that this force IS prouuc-
ed by vibrations of the ether which per
vades the universe; that these vipIatio.s
are so rapid like those attributed 10
Ugbt DO go back to the old philosophy,
that no cognizance can be taken OF then
by human sense: that objects VltalzSu
or synchronized so as TO WDrate IN lhis
ether in a certain definite relation TO each
other will together exert force WINCH
If II can be applied to the every Gay DUST
ness Of life, VIII supersede all other forms
OF energy and at practically no cost. rms
is the way 1t appeared TO the Ledger rep
resentatlve. ,-.... TO-. 90
CRASH a new thought except by compari-
son with past experiences, II was quite
natural to seek for similar modes OIL ac>
lion in better known fields. The synchro-
nous alternating current electTlc motor
which exerts no power until II mas lalIeh
in step with the impulses from the uyna-
mo which supplies It's current, frst sus-
gested itself as a comparison But the
DYNAMO must be put in motion by an en-
zine supplied by steam from burning coai,
while the vibrating ether dlohS cNe' . i~SS
the new motor. .. -, = ,,,,,.,,
A second thought came nearer the marx.
1t will be remembered that Joshua WIN VIII
his seven priests and seven horns, ana the
mighty shout from his people VINO sur
rounded the fated city Of Jerlcho, caused
its walls to fall fiat. The event, t ll'31,ISa
with the supposed action of the new force
in that it may have been that the vibra-
tions caused by that unprecedented shout
were miraculously attuned TO the Key
note or chord which dominated the walls.
This explanation Is given Tor what II Is
worth, but no other phenomenon on re-, re-
ord more nearly expresses the idea whlcn
Mr. Keely's discourse created IN the mlhd
n the reporter, and IL may serve TO ex-
plain some of the experiments Whlch ne
afterwards witnessed.
a round steel bar was shown the re-
oorter said to be solid except Tor ~
ppointIte hole bored longitudinally through
a. md another larger hole near one end
bored from side 10 side, ana eight lnches
long 1t had been ''VitaliZed, and its
proportions had been calculated ted 20 a
one end by the finger. vibrated to a pitch
like a cathedral bell; when struck upon
the floor at the other ena II gave a higI n
for some time. Mr.. keelys own words
in explanation, were: by VitaliZng this
har If produces a molecular OSclildllDn
three times the diameter of the molecule,
whereas under ordinary circumstances
with a piece of forged steel the oscilla-
tion Is only one-third of its diameter, 49,
600 times a second which Is perfectly in
audible to the ear By increasing the
magnitude of the vibrations by the sensi-
tizing process to three times the diameter
1t gives a molecular swing that brings
out an oscillation that produces chord
with three different notes" That is quite
understandable If we could only know
what the sensitizing process is.
The reporter endeavored to fathom this
mystery and was shown large book
filled with heavy cardboard plates, each
of which was a treatise in itself, all
drawn with pen by Mr.. Keely with
beautiful eXactness. Nearly everyone of
these plates had one or more bars of
music showing the dominant chords of
vibrations. The inscriptions on the Zuni
tablets would have been as plain to the
reporter and Mr.. Keely kindly enlight-
ened him as to their meaning. In cx-
PLANTATION of one of the simple charts,
Mr.. Kelly said: THE chord of polar mega
tive attraction. so far as this sympathetic
research is concerned. proves conclusive
~ that the chord of the neutral center of
the polar attractive currents of the earth
represents the sympathetic chord OF B
fiat, third octave, one one-hundredth Of a
note below the octave, according to sym
pathetic subdivision
The reporter could not dispute It. In
fact, he did not even have the presump-
ton to suggest that it might be f fat
as bugles are tuned, and thus in part ac-