The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-24
KEELY's wEIGHTY SECRET.
Men Whom He BeguiIcd still Have
Faith in 1t.
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Philadelphia Record.
Mr.. Thomas said that no work was be-
ing done by the company on any of
which, when perfected. is 70 set at
nauSht all steam engines. AS understood
before Keely was taken sick, the great
engine had been completed and all that
remained was to give the grand demon
stration new machinery, a larger en-
gine, which was delivered at the keely
streets last Thursday. The engine upon
which experiments were being made when
Keely was last in his shop is capable of
CINE with which the demonstration was to
be made by Jan. 1 next, as promised by
the inventor: could. according to Keely,
be made to develop sixty horsepower.
The new engine built at tie ma
chine shops of Rudolph & Gill, on North
Broad street and was put togeth& main
ly last August. after three years of work
and consultation between Mr.. Keely and
William F. Rudolph, the head of the firm
of maChinists.
In speaking of the engine. Mr.. Rudolph
stated that it needed neither boilers nor
other connection and expressed his abso-
I Iute n9iieI that the new energy with
to the scientific world. He said: 81 have
been a practical electrician and machinist
for years, and cannot be imposed upon. and
| know absolutely that Mr.. Keely had
power, the exact qualities of which were UNI
known to me or any one else After three
years of constant work and study upon his
machines the secret of their power was never
discovered by me. although / could put the
machine together and run it after Mr.. Keely
had constructed its foundation from his
Mr.. Rudolph said he understood that the
secret Of Mr. Kecly's power had been put
in writing and given into the possession of
certain members of the company. Mr.. Ru-
dolph also stated that Keely's work began
when. by disintegrating water. he developed
pIo ,css by Which he obtained a pressure
of 10000 pornds to the square inch, but this
discovery was never made practicable, be-
cause such power could not be controlled
or confined and 1t escaped through leakage
The secret power of the present motor he
said, was secured from a combination of
metals, so treated as to have a power sim
liar to magnetism. 1T is acoustics put on a
mechanical basis" concluded Mr.. Rudolph
Though for years back Keely worked only
on his commercial engine, he frequently
gave exhibitions of his weight-ifting. ship
lifting vaporic gun, musical globe and other
inventions The force of his, engine re
frequently showed when several men, pull
ing back on a small driving wheel, could
not stop it when it moving al the very
slow rate of one revolution i'm two minutes
and a half. Eight drops of water were made
to lift $50 pounds. through disintegration,
while two discs about four inches in dame
ter were made to hold together as If mag
retized, with 233 pounds pulling on the under
disc Another test was to cause a five-and-
a-quarter-pound weight to raise In a globe
OF water simply by sending through WIRE
attached to the cover at the top, sound vi
brations from a transmitter.
All these actions were only accomplished
through sound vibrations. the vibrations
from a transmtter, which is principally
composed of pins resembling daTning pins
being mainly employed. With certain note
of a harmonica a steel globe was set re-
volving, while by sounding another note the
revolutions stopped on the instant tun-
ing-fork was used in giving the disc exhi-
bition. while in many of the experiments
an ordinary either was brought into use by
Keely.
The funeral of the dead inventor will be
held from his late residence, No. 1892 Oxford
street. az 10:30 o'clock on Wednesday morn
ing. Services will be held at the house
The remains will be taken to West Laurel
Hill Cemetery in a magnificent mahogany
casket with copper columns. and until the
Keely niausoleum is ready they will be kept
in d vault
Shortly after the burial a meeting of the
Keely Company will be held, when will be
decided its future action Secretary Schuel-
hermann declared yesterday at the COM
panys Office ON the fourth floor of No. 915
Walnut street that he mas not heard any
thing from any of the other officers. The
company is at present capitalized at 5000
600 but Mr.. Thomas stated last evening
that il had capital of $50, 900. 600 This con-
clusion was reached in view of the stage of
completion arrived at, according to Keely'
promise.