The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-02-23
'KEELY,S SECRET HIDDEN.
uo DISCLOSURE OF THE MYSTERY
OF HIS STRANGE MOTOR.

! Tust Before His Death Preparations Were
Being Made to Apply For Patents on
His Inventions-His Company and Its
Expendisures-His Many Experiments.
The death ct Philadelphia Of John
Ernst Worrell Keely, who iposed as
The discoverer of the secret of disin-
tegrating molecules by the vibration
Of musical tones and thereby liberat-
ing force unknown in the present
boundaries of science, has left doubt
rs to whether the nature of his alleged
secre will be revealed. Mr.. Keely's
widow is now in i'll health. He had
no children. It cannot be ascertained
whether he left will, or whether he
committed to any living person the
key to his alleged strange discovery in
dynamics.
The Kelly Motor Stock Company
organized to develop his experiments
has lapsed into a stage of suspense,
Eom all appearances. The organiza-
Ion still exists, with President and
bur or five directors living in New
York, and a Secretary and one direc-
lor living in Philadelphia.
Kelly was an expert in the theory
and art of music. He was a master
Of the theory Of harmony. He was
not only an instrumentalist, but q
composer, and in that attainment lay
the primary element of his alleged
discovery. This was strange rela.
ton or affinity between the forces Of
nature and harmonic forces. He said
he had discovered sympathetic vi
bration connecting the waves of sound
with the disturbance of the molecules
Of matter, and also had found in the
traces of this peculiar disturbance an
energy unknown to the sphere of dy-
namios. His first experiments were
made with drops of water in vacuum.
The first mechanical property he de-
veloped from this series of expert
ments was the force of adhesive at
traction, which he assumed in his own
statements to be related to the polar
currents of the earth. Next he de-
veloped. he has said, the force of pro-
pulsion, revealing positive as well
as negative energy. just as the
chemical separation of the molecules
of water produce electro magnetism
he pursued the theory that the disin-
tegration of these molecules, which he
said he had accomplished, produced,
by the sympathetic vibration Of tones,
a subtle and higher force correlated
with magnetism. He went so far as
to advance the startling proposition
that the rotation of planets in their
orbits was produced by the alternat-
ing power of atomic energy. He said
he had pursued the analysis of his
theme to the eighth power, where he
reached the substance of luminosity.
and there without attempting to theor-
ize further on the origin of things uni
versal, he stopped and put all his
skill and mental resources to the task
of Harvesting the power of atoms to
the economy of life.
Twelve years ago, about half the
period of his experimentation, he
abandoned the molecules of water as
the basis of his task and directed his
attention solely to the molecules oil
air. He said that in the course OF
this work ne had produced dynamic
energy of 10, 900 pounds to the inch in
. Torricellian vacuum. He said he
could exhaust the air from q tube,
getting vacuum as nearly perfect as
could be effected, and generate q force
that could fire gun or move tons OF
inertia. He gave experiments of this
nature at Sandy Hook proving station
in 1888 in the presence of Lieutenant
Zalinski and other students of science,
some of whom were profound skeptics
and insisted on the theory that Keely
used nothing but compressed air.
Whatever the substance was that
Keely carried in steel tube, it was
apparently inexhaustible, the projec-
tive force of the nineteenth and last
shot being greater than any of the
preceding ones, q circumstance that
strangely combatted the theory oil
compressed sir.
1t would require book to tell Of
the series of mechanisms which Keely
devised to convert this mysterious
atomic energy, so called. to the indus.
trial and commercial activities of the
world. He died without effecting this
purpose, and whether or not the Sc
cret or formula of generating this
supposed disturbance of interatomit
energy died with him yet remains te
be told. The apparatus with which
Kelly conducted his alleged expert
ments is the property of the Keely
Motor Company. Apart from that hi
left great mass of manuscript relat
ing to the progress of his experiments
which is the property of his estate
and can only be disposed of in the ad
ministration of his effects.
Edison once offered to give . bono
of any amount of value that could b.
agreed upon to protect the exposure o
KeelY's alleged secretff he could be per
mitted to enter into the workshop o
Kelly and assist him jointly in the me
chanical development and application
OF his mysterious force. This offer wa
rejected, and the skepticism regard
ing Keely was not diminished. TIL,
total capitalization Of the Keely Com.
pany to date is IS. 900, 900, distributed
in shares of $50 par. Much Of thi'
sum represents proprietary capital
But the company has expended thu
amount Of $275, 900 in machinery t.
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