Year: 1874

ward to seven thousand pound.


will be realized. With this DOW


er at his command, unencumber


ed with corresponding cost anG


weight of metal, mans complete


conquest over nature would seen


TO be thing Of the near future.


a PRACTICAL TEST


But before induIging in specu-
! latiOnS upon the value of such a
| discovery, it is rather in order to


consider what grounds there are


for believing that it has really


been made. These grounds so


far, it must be confessed, consist


principally of the statements of


Mr. Kelley and his friends. But


these statements are made by


men who certainly do not lack
intelligence, and in the face of
the fact that if false the lapse of
few week will render them the
laughing-stock of the country.


On Tuesday, the 10th inst, there


was a test of the apparatus in its
unfinished state. This was made
in the presence of ten gentlemen;
among them were three experts


Its shape was not revealed, but
it was capable of holding about
fourteen gallons of water. Reports
in Philadelphia represent it to be
spherical in its general contour.
The inventor, in order to show
that there were no chemicals in
the water used, and that none
had been enclosed in the machine,
drew water from a hydrant near
by, from which he himself first
and afterwards all the others
drank freely. Some of this ny |
drant water was put into the ma
chine and shaken up. 1t was
then allowed to drain out through |
a cock at the bottom, where glass
es were again filled and all again |
drank. The water had not been
changed II taste by It's passage
Though the compartments Of tue
apparatus, Then Mr.. Kelley
poured iu a quantity Of water from |
the hydranl and closed up the |
g Instantane0usly,' TO |
use the words of those present, |
There was developed 3 pressure !
Of seven thousand pounds" This |
pressure was measured by safe |
ty-valve apparatus with a proper
leverage. Of course no steam
guage, as at present constructed,
could be made to record such a
pressure. This was the test that
was made. The enormous pres
sure is to be utilized by means of
an engine with cylinder and pis-
ton, in all the essential respects
like a steam engine. Some
months ago, it is said, small
five-inch stroke engine was con-
nected with the power, general
ing apparatus and was operated
with such extreme rapidity thai,
though it Was strOutly bolted TO a
strong wooden bench, it shook
itself loose. Mr.. K eeley says the
power generated is inexhausta-
bic, and will be supplied as fast
as it can be used in cylinder.
The fact that it has been made to
operate, a steam engine makes it
certain, of course, that the eX-
pansiVe force is due either to
vapor or a gas


1t was objected that this ex-
treme pressure would render the
machine dangerous, as liable to
explode, but the answer made is
that much higher pressure may
be put upon the walls of small
than on those of large one, and
that only small machine will be
needed in most cases, owing 10
the great vIg0r of the new motor.
Besides this the absence of q large
boiler and accompanying c0aIbins
will allow the walls Of the new
machine to be made of any de.
sired thickness and still give it
the advantage Of Lghtness and
convenience over its cIumsieT II
val now in use. About year
ago w. w. Wood, Chief of the
Burean of Naval Engineering in
Washington, visited Philadelphia
and after witnessing the opera
ton of an imperfect machine
which Mr.. Kelley was then at
work upon, expressed himself as
astonished at what he had seen.
Charles II. HasWell, City Consult
ing Engineer of this city, had a
similar experience, and with the
same result about the same time.
Chief Engineer Rutherford, who
was at the recent test, is a firm
friend of Mr.. Kelley, and was
among the first to aid him pecu-
niarily. Patents are to be taken
out of every civilized country.


The unheard-of defense was
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