KEELY MOTOR, THE. 



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This will be done at the same time with the 

 application for his letters patent. It is believed 

 by those most conversant with Mr. Keely's 

 work that in a few months he will succeed in 

 securing a commercial engine, since all that re- 

 mains to be done by him is to control the speed 

 of the engine. The "liberator," which is sup- 



tory weighs less than 150 pounds, while the 

 inventor has in process of construction the 

 fourth and last one, which " is a perfect ma- 

 chine of its kind," weighing less than seventy- 

 five pounds, with which he expects to produce 

 a greater force than has ever before been 

 shown. Some idea of the wide experimental 



THE LEVER. 



posed to liberate the mysterious etheric force 

 and prepare it for application, is represented in 

 its present condition by the illustration on page 

 408. It is the result of twelve generators, 

 each an improvement, the inventor says, on its 

 predecessors. About four years ago, Mr. 

 Keely discarded the use of water in the pro- 



field that has been covered may be gained by 

 Mr. Keely's statement that " since 1872 there 

 have been over thirty changes in the progress- 

 ive development of the mechanical to reach 

 the present, and what I call the perfect system." 

 And as many as 124 different machines or en- 

 gines have been constructed in experiment- 



THE ENGINE. 



duction of his force, and this necessitated im- 

 portant changes in the mechanism. The clumsy 

 generator of several tons' weight gave place to 

 the lighter " liberator." Three of these have 

 been constructed, each one slighter than its 

 predecessor, until that at present in bis labora- 



ing with one " liberator." Brass tubes' plates 

 of steel, and tuning-forks, make up the strange 

 machine. The lever, shown in the second 

 illustration, on application of the force generat- 

 ed by the liberator, lifts heavy weights. The 

 third illustration shows the engine, by means 



