The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-11-26

1T might not be lost, in. the event of his
death. He fought it off, but the supreme
court decided he would rave to or risk
going to jail. Finally the court appointed
scientist as referee, one acceptable to
the stockholders and to Mr.. Keely, and
to him, under pledge of secrecy, the in
ventOr showed the secrets of his ma
chimes. Then the referee went before the
stockholders and said he was perfectly
satisfied and that Mr.. Keely was not an
impostor.
But even then the stockholders weren't
satisfied. They wanted something done,
and the interest on their money. So they
threatened Mr.. Keely again with the Jail,
and in a night Of despair he chopped up
all his machines.
When things were going altogether
wrong and the backing necessary for the
development of the motor was not com.
ing, Mrs. Bloomfield Moore became his
patrOness and settled upon him an income
of $50 a week. She admitted that she did
no know anything more about his secret
than the other members of the Keely com
pany, but she believed in the man. She
promised him that he need only make
progress, never patent working machine
unless he chose to, and to work along the
lines he had mapped out for his inven-
ton. She was at that time past sixty and
had large fortune amassed by her father
and her husband in a great paper manu-
1dCluIIS house III FQllaQeipnld. she
fought the other members of the company
off, built him larger laboratory and sup
piled him with all the equipment neces-
sary. Under her patronage Mr.. Keely
worked to the end and the motor re-
manned mystery
Answers to Critics.
When ever critics called him an i'm
poster his friends cited the fact that he
lived as a poor man, save that he had
built a handsome residence. But he was
no clubman, did not drive fast horses, and
spent all his time in the laboratory What
was the motive for extracting money If
he put 1t all into machines? they asked.
And Mr.: Keely worked on and refused to
give up the secret.
Probably 5000 machines, engines and
the like have been made for Mr.. Kelly,
and, in many instances by him. None
was ever patented, because he was unwill-
ing to reveal the secret until it was devel-
Oped into perfection. Something like
$500, has been invested in the work,
While the mystery remained with the in
ventor and the manuscript in the safety
deposit vault.
Mr.. Keely's last spectacular appear
ance with his motor as thing that would
work was about two years ago. He took
a number of practical, hard-headed me-
chanical experts and scientists to his lab
oratory to see the mechanism and to OBJ
serve it's workings The men represented
some OF the largest traction companies in
the country. They saw, they marveled.
And they went away with the secret be-
hind them. The world was told that one
OF the companies was to operate it's ma
chinery with the new power, and Mr..
Keely, the man with the motor, was again
famOuS-fOr a time. -
John Jacob Astor, few years ago, ex
hibited keen interest in the scheme.
That gave to the inventor another cycle
of public attention.
And so it has gone from the day of the
first announcement until this, the day of
his death. &c.,.
Whether other scientists and physicists
will perfect the new motor, once the
zKeely secret is given them. is one of the
things that the public will await with in
terest.
The Keely motor was put forth as a per-
force rising out of musical harmonies.
Mr. Keely claimed to have discovered a
new force, and then to have invented the
means by which he could harness it and
utilize it for running machinery. When
he or his attorney, Charles B. Collier,
who did most Of his talking for him,
started out to describe the new force,
they liked the illustration of a pair of
tuning forks best of all.
Suppose you have two forks" Mr.. Col
lier once said, both pitched in precisely
the same sound vibration. Take one and
put it on table in one room and put the
other on table in the other room Strike
one of these forks and Immediately the
other will take the tone and vibrate in
harmony with it.
''The cosmic force that carries the vibra-
ton from the one tuning fork to the other
and makes them vibrate in harmony is
the force which Mr.. Keely discovered. I
than
say that there are polar and depolar
waves for force. and that the control of
these will operate powerful engines
Mr.. Keely used what he called a SYM
pathetic generator to procure his force.
This generator was a small globe not big
ger than ones head. Inside it there was
a mechanism consisting, it was said, of
two "sensitized' plates of metal, but: the
public was given no chance to examine
1T further. The process of "sensitiZing
was one of Mr.. Keely's two great secrets,
the other being the harmonic arrange
ment essential to the production Of en-
'ergy. IS i>a2-
! H., The Engine.
, From the generator the power was sup
iposed to be shot over into the engine.
This consisted Of a stationary frame, on
which was a thing that looked like a
wheel with eight spokes, but without an
outer rim, which was intended to take to
itself all the force sent out from the gen.
!erator, and to be the direct agent for put
! ting the wheel in motion. On each one of
the spokes was another sensitiZed plate:
Around this apparatus was a wheel with
sensitized plates on the inside and sets Of
musical tubes or prongs on the outside.
Wires connected one of these sets of
prongs with the generator.
! To start his machine going Mr.. Keely
would seat himself comfortably and strike
the chord on the prongs at the base of the
generator. Then. II the wheel did its bust
ness, it began to ,revolve-aS q result, the
inventor said, Of energy transmitted to 1t
from the generator. Once started, It was
supposed to be the business Of that wheel
to keep on turning and working until a
Instantaneous chord was struck on the
generator. That, Mr.. 'Keely said, was the
only thing that would stop it.
1t was said that this machine could be
very cheaply constructed and that II
could be made in all sorts of shapes, 80
as to do little or big pieces Of work. It
was put forth as the coming substitute
for both electricity and steam
CUDAs ACTUAL RULER.