Arizona republican., 1898-12-08

ance" in sound and electricity is well
 established. MarcOni uses apparatus | to produce electro magnetic waves, and iancther device, a ''coheTer." picks them
 up ai- . distance. And that Is the es- tsencc Of wireless teles-aphy. Again, the
 musician ssts up two tuning forks
 whose rates Of vibration are exactly alike, and when he strikes one the lether Immediately emits the same nate,
 in sympathy. 5It= -
 l But here is one unique point CT diff ! ference between these two instances of
 sympathetic vibration and Keeiy's. The Marconi apparatus and the tuning fork do not develop more force than IS employed in the exciting process. There is merely transfer of energy, and, usually. with more CT less loss; but Keely pretended to think that he ob- tained-a vastly greater amOuntNof~force than he used to start his machinery. in
 other words, he assumed the existence of al additional store of energy in the ether, and alleged that his mechanism | "iberated' the stCred-U9 force. Put ting the generator, CT tranSmitter, of
 his apparatus in. operation was like pulling the trigger of a loaded gun. The resuI.s were entirely disp-opcrtiOnate to the ettort required to ignite the cart
 ridge, and depended upon something already confined. as it were, under pres sure, and needing only some trifing vibratOry excitement to release it.
 Sometimes keely's language suggest ed ,he idea that this force resided i'll ,ne ether itself, and as physicists have been accustomed to think of the ether as merely a medium for the transmits sion of energy-light from The sun to the earth, for instance, CT the attrac- ton Of gravitation from one mass to ancther-they- were fndisposed to ac- cept, without proof, 5he theory that the ether w2s reservoir of energy, too, Even had the suggestion of Lord Kel- win and Helmboltz, that the ether was attcnuated matter, in ,he form of voT- tex rings. been demonstrated to be a fact, it would still be a question how any Of that motion could be extracted from the rings
 There have been hints that Keely might get his force from the vibrations of atoms of r.atter: and, as the notion
 That atoms are in constant state Of vibration, in beth solids and liquids. is looked upon with favor by many chem ists, g superficial consideration of that. doctrine would encourage the supposi- ti5n that this motion might somehow be translated into mechanical power. But. no one has attempted to indicate how such an operation could be con ducted. And in very recent state ment Of his theory, made last March, Keely himself ignored the ether and the vibrations of atoms as a source of energy, and explained the effects which he produced by calling in ''the earth's polar negative currents, whatever these may be. He never told any one what they were, though he insisted that his cosmic force was altogether differ ent from electricity, magnetism and gravity.
 It does not seem probable that Keeiy was more dishonest than she majority Of inventors. He may have resorted to certain tricks as temporary slIbter- fuges, and he doubtless experienced many disappointments in his efforts to harness what he believed to De. a force never before recognized. But grant ing the mans sincerity, it is credible that he was deceived by phenomena which he did not fully understand. Whether he really got hold of a1 agent which would have been available for human use is question about which there is room for two opinions. How ever, if q valuable secret perished with him, man may be trusted to hit upon it again ill the course Of years. Every such hidden force will be mastered eylntually.-New York Tribune.