The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-21
K%EELYPUzZLEDE ENGINEERS
SOMETHING LNPBILADELPHIA THAI
MOVES, THEY'LL STEAR,

They saw " Move. Dtdn't see what Moved rts
Observed Power Enough 60 Churn Butter,
were Not Allowed To Examine thn Motor.
and pon,t Know n nieszea Thing More
Two mechanical engineers, two electrical en-
gineers, and tho general manager OF tho Man
haitian Elevated Railroad went over to Philas
deiphia on Friday to witness a tost Of tho Keoly
motor. What they saw was printed In THE SUN
yesterday morning. What some OF thom
thought of what they saw is printed below. II
will DO seen that II the inventor of the motor.
John W. Keely, didn't convince those who saw
the tost that he has discovered q new force In
dynamics, he certainly did succeed In puxzling
them. Ono of the electrical engineers who saw
tho test was Alfred 8. Brown, tho chief olec-
trician OF the Western Union Telegraph Conn
pany. In speaking OF the motor 10 a SUN re'
porter yesterday afternoon Mr.. Brown said:
"You must excuse me from going into a tech
pioal discussion Of Mr.. Keely's invention, IL 10
really DO an invention. lido not know enough
about the contrivanco to enter into such a dis
cussion. / do not know that 1t is an invention,
because I do not know that Mr.. Kecly has made
tho discovery Of o new force In dynamics. This
much. though, I can say: i really believe he
thinks he has made such q discovery.
1T 10 unnecessary for me to undertake -
give o description OF the motor. A very good
description was printed in this mornings Sun.
We were invited to visit Mr.. Keely's laboratory
TO see the motor work. We saw It. at rest and
in motion. We saw q small edition Of It. and .
largo ono. We saw some of its parts. we heard
Mr.. Keely speak OF the sympathetic trans
mitter,' which, he says, generates the power; We
heard him speak of tho 'vitalized discs,' his
polar and 'depolar etheric waves and his
,sSnsitlLed cartridges. cannot SPEAK for the
for form myself, I have not the siishtsst idea I%e, Of What
any or these terms means. l really think that
any other fantastic names would have done
motor mo Sssf' That's s sbosG s ali I can M0 say ayr Tor Il.
iiS1 hat amy ! usefui discovery SaG o w1y'H IN 'S dynam is h has sA SeeSn
made. AT no time did the motor, or etheric en-
velop more than onc-t wentieth horse power. In
some Of the printed reports OF the test, l see that
1t 10 said as high as ten-horse power was devel-
"When II came to on examination OF the
%GsS %e we T gee s sffGiPPsSs to SsfS fsd we ont got av y9ry fS W:
could, inst, what 1t was that came from the
s sig%p az tSe FepIiiTssdoFdi i, 95 to S sest e s6s GomRS,
was allowed OF. the composition Of the .sensi-
tiled cartridges How, then. was i possible for
val ne Of the motori | saw nothing to convince
me that It has a practical value. ! can Imagine
as the late MIR. Hermann might have ~coniursd
up: Mind yop / do not say that such is the case,
quite willing to admit that, Ii Keely has dis
covered what he says be has. y will prove one
OF the most wonderful discoveries the world mas
ever known. As near as ] can make out, Eeely
claims TO have discovered ether waves coming
from the sun. moon and planets. These he con.
trolls and harmonizes by his tuning fork con-
trivance: When the harmony is perfect, the
sympathetic transmitter' begins to do business
and the motor motes."
Another man who saw the motor mote - bus
did not wish 10 be quoted, said: Those OF US
who saw the motor. or 'ethcric engine in opera
ton came away knowing just about as much as
we did when we went there. The most wonder
full thing in relation to the test was tho reports
OF It In, some Of the papers, this morning. They
were absolutely absurd. Take, for Instance, the
Worlds report. In that ] find this:
Although the railroad men were not here in an OF.
ncial capacity e Is generally understood. should they
become convinced Of the prScticaliliy Of the inyen.
lions OF Keely, both the Manhattan Elevated and
Metropolitan Trarton companies OF New York would
he recommended to adopt them As motive power.
None of those connected with either OF the
compa MES mentioned has the slightest idea OF
even considering the Keely's. contriysnce In tho
light OF a motive power: We saw nothing to
lead Ms to believe that the invention. or what
ever 1t may be called. has any practical value,
Even ii II has, the chances OF its being suggested
for use on either the elevated roads or those Of
the Metropolitan Traction COMPANY are Ms re-
mote as the chance OF your being struck by
li.hIning when there's a clear sky over eur
bani