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KEELY MOTOR, THE. 



recording the vibrations by means of a steel 

 bar studded with pins of various lengths. The 

 result was surprising: the sympathetic flow 

 induced even by this, the first order of vibrat- 

 ory association, being infinitely more tenuous 

 and penetrating than the electric current. 



The best idea of what the Keely motor is 

 can probably be obtained from a careful ex- 

 amination made not long since by a disin- 

 terested Englishman. He recalls how Tyndall 

 and others have satisfactorily demonstrated 

 that in motion is to be sought the true origin of 

 sound, heat, light, and probably electricity in 

 a motion that is vibratory, the pulsations of 

 which can be calculated if not explained. The 

 new chemistry goes further and discovers a 

 constant motion of the atoms among them- 

 selves. Keely's idea is the liberation of that 

 motion in its primitive or quasi-primitive form, 



THE LIBERATOR. 



and its application to the use of man ; the reso- 

 lution of that ether, so-called vastly more 

 tenuous and intangible than electricity itself 

 in which the waves of sound and light are sup- 

 posed by scientists to be produced. The dis- 

 covery of the fact that objects composed of a 

 material such as glass could be made to vibrate 

 at a distance only in response to one particular 

 chord to which their mass seemed to respond, 

 led to the discovery on which his work is based 

 the finding of the so-called "chord of the 

 mass " of any material body, and the applica- 

 tion of this discovery to the production of vi- 

 brations at will. The utilization of this chord 

 produces disintegration of the body in question, 

 and this disintegration in turn is capable of 

 being converted into motion. 



It seems impossible to understand Keely's 

 own language. For an uneducated man he has 

 a surprising command of words. He says: 



" All operations of nature have for their sensi- 

 tizing centers of introductory action triple 

 vacuum evolutions. These evolutions are cen- 

 tered in what I call atomic triple revolutions, 

 highly radiaphonic, and thoroughly independ- 

 ent of all outside forces in their spheres of 

 action. In fact, no conceivable power, how- 

 ever great, can break up their independent cen- 

 ters. So infinitely minute are they in their 

 position that, within a circle that would in- 

 close the smallest grain of sand, hundreds of 

 billions of them perform, to an infinite mathe- 

 matical precision, their continuous vibratory 

 revolution of inconceivable velocity." In giv- 

 ing a description of the nature of his force and 

 what has been involved in the multitudinous 

 changes necessitated in its development omit- 

 ting all thought of the methods of its practical 

 application, which has ever been a problem 

 by itself Keely says: "The different con- 

 ditions include the change of the mediums for 

 disturbing equilibrium, under different medi- 

 ums for intensifying vibration, as associated 

 with them progressively from the molecular to 

 the interetheric : first, percussion; second, un- 

 dulation ; third, vibratory undulations; fourth, 

 vibratory percussion; fifth, water and air; 

 sixth, air alone." There is not the simplicity 

 of a great truth in these statements, yet they 

 may represent a distinct idea in Keely's mind. 



The result of his thirty years of work is a 

 machine popularly known as the "Keely 

 motor," but called a " liberator " by the in- 

 ventor himself. Its production has "absorbed," 

 he says, a quarter of a million dollars. Yet it 

 is not satisfactory to him, nor has it demon- 

 strated its usefulness to others except by lifting 

 weights on the end of a lever in his workshop. 

 An English writer declares that not long ago, 

 in the presence of several gentlemen interested 

 in mining operations, Mr. Keely bored, with 

 his engine, eighteen feet in eighteen minutes, 

 into the quartz rock of the Catskill mountains. 

 But there is no other evidence of this astound- 

 ing fact, of which American newspapers would 

 have been only too glad to get hold. 



The Keely Motor Company was formed in 

 1872. The board of directors, seven in num- 

 ber, has been composed for several years past 

 of six residents of New York and one resident 

 of Philadelphia. A few gentlemen have been 

 and are very eager that Mr. Keely shall imme- 

 diately impart his " secrets " to some one ; and 

 in their eagerness, say his defenders, to have 

 this done, they assume that it can be done in a 

 half-hour's time. For twenty-five years Mr. 

 Keely has been exploring a realm of science 

 the most subtile that can be imagined, to wit : 

 the phenomena of acoustics and sound, which 

 embrace the science of music. He has not 

 been content with the construction of ma- 

 chinery for the purpose of utilizing sound- 

 force as a motive power, but lias been record- 

 ing his experiments day by day, and promises 

 shortly to publish the result of his twenty-five 

 years of research in this branch of science. 



