A WONDERFUL INVENTION.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 102, 10 April 1875, Page 4

A WONDERFUL INVENTION.

H— — Mb. W. Keeley, an Irish- American, has a machine nearly couim pleted (says the ' Irish, World 1 of Jan. 23), whiGh may supersede^ even the locomotive engine. If Keeley's new machine— or motor, as it is called— performs all he claims for it, it will be one of the greatest mechanical inventions ever perfected. Keeley declares that, with two gallons of water, it will generate force enough to draw a train of cars from Philadelphia to San Francisco and back again, without fuel, chemicals, electricity, or magnetic currents j but he does not state how long it will take to accomplish the journey. The machine is probably of the hydro-mechanical nature, although the precise mechanism, is known only to the inventor. Keeley asserts that he has developed a pressure of 70001bs. to the sqare inch, and when it is remembered that steam boilers are seldom pressed beyond lOOlbs. to the square inch, the leap Mr., Keeley intends to make can may be partially imagined. The motor is zealously guarded. Only a few persons, consisting of - Chief Engineer Rutherford, of the United States Navy, and half a dozen practical mechanics, are allowed to see it until it is finished. A pressure as high as that claimed by Keeley can be obtained by the rapid decomposition of the water into its constituent gasses ; but Keeley denies reaching the result by any of the customary methods. Some Philadelphia engineers think the power churned for the new machine too magnificent for belief; but Chief Engineer Rutherford and others have firm confidence in the. utility of the " motor." ' »

Several of the New York papers are calling for the impeach* meat of Grant.