The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-22

ago. particularly in 1SSS-S9, when Mr.. Keely
first claimed 10 do everything By wires ana
nothing by tubes, and in 1888 as well, was
that all of the Keely experiments could be
duplicated By means of compressed AIR. VI
this view are the investigators who have
been at work the last four days. Hence
the interest aroused by the discovery Of the
tubing leading from the rear room on the
first moor to the rooms above.
In the opinion of the investigators tne
lower rear room was an admirable place IN
which TO store compressed air, either in the
big three-ton steel sphere found there OF IN
any other apparatus, and then dlstrlDute II
to the exhibition rooms above SUCH pos
sible distribution was facilitated by the tact
that in the rear room on the lower Hoor the
ioists were not exposed as in the front
room, but instead wooden ceiling had been
nailed on, which gave space or about SIX
teen inches between this ceiling and the
floor of the room above, which room was
Keely's main exhibition room.
AS the investigation made clear, there
was perfect communication between this
caveroom, in which the big sphere lies i'm
bedded in the earth, and the upper room, in
which, among other apparatus, near the
door. stood the lever machine The COM
munication was by auger holes OF various
sizes in the flooring and in the ceiling.
These auger holes, for the most part, were
under the various machines that were
shown 20 visitors, and enabled the inventor
to have any kind of pipe or connection he
desired. According to Professor Goodspeed,
who visited the laboratory in 1889, no Wis
1tors were allowed in the rear room in the
lower floor nor were they allowed to APP
In the rooms above, nor could they examine
the flooring nor the ceiling below the main
exhibition room.
They simply saw the results that went on
in the upper rooms as Keely blew his mouth
organ or twanged his chords 1t also came
out that keely invariably required twenty
four hours notice before giving an eXhi-
bition. During this investigation the ceiling
ana floors were torn up and thoroughly ex-
amined.
After the finding of a tubing by Mr.. Sell
Iers on Friday Carl Herring on Monday
found another piece of tubing equally long,
which seemed to be a duplicate of the tub
ing used on the lever machine. This tubing
is OF the kind known as high pressure tub
ing, and the joints are made so as to stand
great strain and are known as high pres
sure joints.
In the refuse heaps under the floor, on the
ground hoor-the building is without cell
lar-was found number of metal tubing
OF various diameters, the smallest being less
then an eighth of an inch, the, next size
being about an eighth of an inch, and the
next largest about three-Sixt of an
inch in diameter.
TUBING UNDER CEILING.
When the rooms above were carefully ex-
amined, tubing of the same size as that
found by Mr. Herring in the ceiling of the
rear room below was found in place under
the floor of the second story rear room, near
the door. This tubing was apparently Of
exactly the same diameter as the tubing
used on the lever machine, which formerly
stood over in this corner of the room. DR..
Miller located this, and, Furthermore, came
across piece of tubing of the same size
that was carried under the joists, through
the brick partition under the Intel of the
door which leads from the front exhibition
room to the rear. This was considered by
al the investigators the greatest find of all.
rms piece or tubing was carefully hidden
in the brick work, which had been removed
ana then reset with new plaster. The tubing
ran through the brick partition under the
w loco 1da6 iy1fO
the room below, but this end was broken
on. The other end of this same piece was
carried diagonally through the brick work
apparently also to the floor below, but as
1t was likewise broken off, just where it
made and how it made its connections with
the mechanism or engines below or above,
was not obvious
Coleman Sellers, jr., Mr. Herring, Mr..
Moore, Professor Goodspeed, and the others
present did not see what these high pressure
tubes, hidden under the flooring and IN the
brlck work, could be used for, unless it
were to carry compressed aid for expert
mehts, although all admitted that the
breaking off OF all connections by the re-
moYal of all the machinery made the evil
dence presumptive rather than absolute
They examined the tubes with care and
noted particularly that those found in the
rubbish had ends prepared for jonting and
1t was the opinion of all they were joints
specially made to stand high air pressure
such pressures, for instance, as could easily
pc confined to the great steel sphere, which
PROFESSOR Goodspeed thought would easily
hold air under the compression Of LOCO or
more atmosphere.
-, In addition TO the metal tubing found in
the second floor, in the ashes and general
rubbish, heavy glass tubing was found, and
above on the first floor DR.. Miller located a
long iron pipe, which ran from near the
shallow pit in the front room on the ground
1loor under the point which had been cut
in one place to allow it's passage, back until
1t almost reached the pit in the rear room,
where the steel sphere lay in the earth with
pipe which was thirteen and half feet long
and declared by two employees of the N. G.
n q a
BY the removal of the flooring and the
taking out of the debris under the flooring
it was found to be plugged at each end with
curious right-angled points of rough work.
manship. After careful examination of
these on Tuesday afternoon Coleman Sell
lers, jr., declared that though crude and
amateurish the points were made to control
high pressureS and were not commercial
points. They were the kind of points that
would have to be made to order or were
improvised by Keely out of materials he had
at hand, which he worked up to suit the
special purpose in view, which in both cases
seemed to be to make turn at right angles.
The discovery of this pipe and of all the
odds and ends of high pressure tubing IN a
laboratory that for many years had been de-
voted to forces which needed nothing but
wires or the air, and which reacted when
Keely tangled musical instruments, i'm
pressed the investigators fcrcibly as from
DAY to day they kept on turning up the
It Was recalled that as far back as 1887
Kelly had announced that his lever machine,
which Professor Goodspeed saw him operate
IN l6oJ, WAS UUONGu ny N4UlcllOilo CduSCN W
wires In his annual report for 1887 Keely
said ST have already exhibited the raising
of my lever with an apparent uplifting ex-
pansiVe force of, say, 250J0pounds per square
inch when, in fact, there was not an ounce
uplifting expansive force under the piston
or under the lever to raise The gentlemen
who saw this operation will recall the fact
that the uplifting force to raise the lever
So much for Keely's point of view, but in
the light of the discoveries made this week
it seemed clear to all the Investigators he
could Just easily have performed this lift
ing trick by using compressed air and trans
hitting through some of the tubes found
under the flooring and in the doorsill so
conveniently near to the lever machine.
It does not f9il9w Keelye did do this but
and his conferees, for instance, saw the
experiments in 1885, at the request Of Mrs.
Moore it was the general opinion that Keely
would have been perfectly free to use COM
pressed air without the slightest chances
of detection.
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