The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-11-20
KEELY'S SECRET HIDDEN.
NO DISCLOSURE or THE MYSTERY
or HIS STRANGE MOTOR

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Preparation Were Being Made to Apply
for Patents on His Inventions. but We're
Not Carried Out-His COmpan and Its
Expenditures His Many Experiment..
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 10-The death Of John
Ernst worrell Kelly. who posed as the discoy-
erer OF the secret OF disintegrating molecules by
the vibration OF musical tones and thereby lib
Grating a force unknown in tho present bound
aries OF science. has left doubt as TO whether
the nature OF his alleged secret will be revealed.
Mr.. Keely's widow Is now In III health. He
had no children. II cannot be ascertaine ed
whether he left a VIII. or whether he COM
mitted to any living person the key to his
alleged strange discovery in dynamics.
The Kelly Motor Stock Company organized
TO develop his experiments has inpsed Into q
stage OF Suspense, from all appearances. The
organization stlll exists. with a President and
four or nvo directors living in New York, and q
Secretary and ono director living in thisNcity,
A corporate Office is maintained In the attic
Of n brick building on Walnut street, above
Ninth. The Office Is unexpected and almost
destitute OF furniture. Charles W. Schueller-
man. the Secretary OF the corporation. is the
sole tenant OF this place. There are no shades
at tho windows. and the light that enters them
throws it's rays upon a strange variety of photo
graphic blue prints. working drawings and
queer mechanical designs which illustrate She
early and later stages OF Keely's researches In
the mysteries OF molecular and atomic forces.
Keely was an export in the theory and art Of
music. He was n master OF the theory OF har-
mony. He was not only an instrumentalist,
but a composer. and In that attainment lay
the primary element of his alleged discov-
cry. This was a strange relation or affinity
between the forces of nature and harmonic
forces. He said he had discovered q sympa-
thetic vibration connecting the waves Of sound
with the disturbance OF the molecules OF mat
ter. and also had found In the traces OF this pecu-
liar disturbance an energy unknown to the
sphere OF dynamics. His first experiments
were made with drops of water In q vacuum.
The first mechanical property he developed
from this series of experiments was the
force OF adhesive attraction, which he
assumed in his own statements to be related
to tffe polar currents of the earth. Next he de-
veloped, he has said. the force Of propulsio n.
revealing q positive as we'll rs negative energy.
Just as the chemical separation of the mole
cules OF water produce electro magnetism
he pursued the theory, that the disiptegration
S si6rppiioh d. tt G0dS On P6E E,o the hed 6Syy ghppa bette
soPreIated u with thin miasn s%Rsi1 "nq He Went t0f SO
t sislts that Ea th' p ]FS5at!sR St g. BIZ iSS3St sl,s 6 sSSi;
power Of atomic, energy. He said he had
pursued p!nStS the ANALYSIS LSdySs Is Of his theme he to the
Of luminosity. and there without attempting to
theorize further on the origin, Of things uni.
mestal re res ssGPssdt to S the tRa Sik az a. h sis ssHl enc the
power OF atoms to the economy Of life.
his fs Spsfin ESa5s aSS. f he aSa heI5 tsH the RRsFi @ols st
cules. OF, water, as the basis Of his task and
air, He said that in the course of this work he
h Rodp5 PFG 20 tse inch q bdyin IN a a ToT s9issR Ian Of v, 10s00o
He said he could exhaust the air from a tube.
getting a vacuum as nearly perfect as could
a gun or move tons Of inertia. He gave Sxperio
m meiio, Of 81 Ibis IBIS n nature at sandy Hook proving
SKI and other students Of science as'G some ns'@ Of
whom were profound skeptics and insisted on
the theory that Keely used nothing but COM
Whateyerth substance was that Keely carried
II q steel tube. It was apparently inexhaustible.
ones, a circumstances that strangely combatted
It would require a book to tell OF the series
Of mechanisms which Keely devised to convert
world. He died without eneeting this puro
f R1sS' a" Of . TeHeast q tbs MS s sap . sssset di Or
turbanee OF interatomic energy died with
With WiM Which Rely g conducted ps ted his alleged Ippsfa eIs
perlrnents is thu. property, OF the Keely Motor
mass Of manuscript relating. to the progress OF
s his sSp srd ean cI Which h Z s,l the properly q t Of his
ministratlon OF his ~effects.
Edison once offered to give a bond Of any
amount of value. that could be agreed
upon to protect the exposure Of Keely's
alleged secret If he could be permitted TO enter
into the workshop, OF ,Kee!y and assist him
Jointly Snn,iGys, in the MECHANICAL Development and
offer was. rejected. and the skepticism
regarding Keely was not diminished. The to-
tai capitalization of the Keely Company to date
is S5,OOO.00O distributed In shares Of $50 par.
Much OF this. sun represents proprietary capt.
an s%qna SS Of s375.0 sSSSHiR n %ad afs s1 e sas9y t oe
No, patents were ever secured with devices
which keely invented. Charles Is. Collier, O
lawyer OF this city. was retained by Keely and
his company in 1895 70 apply for letters patent
on the keely inventions. Detailed drawings
tions were written. The designs were never
the, Patent ONCE. Some. months ago Mr..
Collier. observing Keely's failing health. sug-
Eestsd some plan for preserving Keely's secret
in the event. Of death. He proposed that q
crucial test, OF Keely's mechanisms should be
c @sss Il IN t 6Ssa nsei & dire q 4Im % th Of d Lam:
patent attorney at Washington SO that
they could dismantle. adjust, and operate the
devices as. Keely did. The proposition was
submitted to the Board OF Directors on Oct. 3
last and tabled; Mr.. Collier then Withdrew
the company. having been associated with
keely as his counsel and q director in the or
genization for more than ten years.
80 Tar as MIR. Collier knows. no provision has
peen lett by keely for disclosing the secret OF
his motor. and the only legacy OF tho corpora
ton may be the mechanical apparatus in
keeiy's workshop. minus the secret. by which
alone IL might lA onnrotad