THE KEELY MOTOR

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 2, 28 November 1877, Page 2

THE KEELY MOTOR

Every now and then paragraphs find fcheir way into print about Keely, the iroerioan inventor. Mysterious Uiats are dropped about his fnvestiijations, and the wonderful results that are shortly to be shown, the gigantic force thut he is patiently bringing under the control of man, and the immense reform '»' 3 labours are to make in the scientific history of the world. The las,t news of the Fhiladelphian inventor is as follows : — Keely, of Motor notoriety has completed liis new machine, wpighiqft 20 tons, two years in ponstructjon, at a cost of <50,000d01. A globe of oast steel, 4't in 1 diameter on the outside, has a diameter J inside of 9in. The difficulty has been to get j material capable of withstanding; the i enormous pressure of the vapour ; but ; Mr Eeely is now tostiuij its strength before he applies the power to large eugines. He has registered a pressure pf 11,6001 bto the square inch, The condensing apparatus into whjch. the vapour is discharged is a cylinder that holds three gallons of water. When the water that had been used had been re-condensed it was apparently pure and free from any foreigh taste such as j would be imparted by explosive powders, | while the vapour, when discharged into the face, was felt to be cold and dry. MrKcely spqke of it as a new force unknown to gpienco — n,ot invented by him, but dis* covered by accident. He could work the machine up to 10,000 horse power if the mptal would hold, and he intends to work |t immediately on, a 200 horse - power engine. A small machine in uuother osce he alluded to as the most powerful ever constructed, thqugh only a qiMrt, meaning that it only use* a quart of water, with the condenser now nearly com plejed, Mr Iveely will make that quart of water produce a thousand horse-power motion of sufficient duration to run a stenmship across the ocean. The meaning is that he can drive a Cunardor faster than the most powerful has ever yet been driven, and, unless we are misinformed, th,e manager af that fleet in New York believes th,at Mr Keely can do what he sajs. A creator thus discoursed i— »' We hnv« been laughed at and called cheats and. impoaitors, but out of i]\e original company who joined in raising 120,000 dollars already expended upon this invention, only three or four havu withdrawn. We are the oriijina.l crowd, and we don't think of weaking. In a month or two now all Mr Kpely'9 tests will be finished, and we will show the world whether he is Ihe greatest inventor or the greatest hum* bug of this age. Scientists, n>ncliinists, and learned societies are invited to come, and make every test they can think of."