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(word processor parameters LM=8, RM=75, TM=2, BM=2)
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Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501
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Sponsored by Vangard Sciences
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PO BOX 1031
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Mesquite, TX 75150
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November 5, 1990
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KLYMOT1.ASC
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This was a short story that was in a book called `Stranger Than
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Science'. The book was written by Frank Edwards. There was no date
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as to when the book was written. It appears as if the book was
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written in the early 1960's. Also the author did not give the source
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of his information.
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JOHN KEELY'S MYSTERY MOTOR
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The Powerful engine shook the building ... but it shook the existing
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understanding of energy even harder.
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Twenty-three men were crowded into the same small room which housed
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the controversial motor. Many of them were engineers, others were
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professional men or bankers - and all of them were investors. They
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were skeptics, too; and they had waited years for John Keely to make
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good on his claims.
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Time after time they had poured their money into his endless
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research and profitless development of the engine that now stood
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before them. Today he had promised them that he would show what it
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could do. Was he fraud or genius? They should soon know.
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John Keely never even glanced at the hard faces of the men who were
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packed into the room with him and his engine. If he was aware of
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their presence he gave no hint - just as he apparently ignored the
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ear-shattering noise that was rattling the small window panes.
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From the heavy steel machine, bolted to the massive stone base, came
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the screech of metal in travail. A deep hum changed to a moan - the
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moan to a whine. Wilder danced the window frames - as though they
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were eager to flee this unearthly din.
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Keely knew he was master of the situation, because he, and he alone,
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was master of the machine before them. These irate investors were
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demanding proof that their money had gone into something practical?
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Very well-they would soon have their proof! He lightly tapped a
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button, and the roar jarred the bones of every man present.
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When the faint blue fog cleared away, the committee members could
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see that the one-inch lead ball had been expelled from the machine
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with such incredible force that it had shot completely through two
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heavy oak planks and buried itself in a sandbox against the wall.
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Most Impressive, the committee agreed; but when could they expect to
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put this latent power to work in a fashion that would reimburse the
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stockholders?
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For John Keely this session with the stockholders' committee in
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November 1879 was an old, old story. He gave them performance - they
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insisted on profits. Over and over again, as the stockholders came
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and went, he endured their criticism and calumny.
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Through the years of ambivalence that surged about him, John Keely
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never lost his temper. Neither did he lose his ability to find new
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financial backers to replace those who had given and gone.
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For a mechanical inventive genius, John had an unusual background.
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Born in Philadelphia in 1827, he worked as a carpenter, a violinist,
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a magician who specialized in card tricks; and finally he trudged to
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the Rocky Mountains as a trapper. Badly wounded by an Indian arrow,
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he mode his way back to Philadelphia and eventually recovered from
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the wound.
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It was an age when the need for controllable power was great. Water
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power could not meet the demands of growing industry. Steam power
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was not the answer - there must be some new cheap source of energy
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that could be harnessed to turn the wheels of the mills and
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factories.
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John Keely first attracted attention by announcing, in 1871, that he
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had tapped a great new source of energy - as he put it with
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exasperating vagueness - "a device which disintegrates the etheric
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force that controls the atomic constitution of matter." Some
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scientists challenged him, some ignored him - all were skeptical of
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him.
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Keely claimed that his engine operated on "harmonic vibrations." His
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detractors promptly retorted that the motivating force was hot air,
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generated by Mr. Keely.
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Whatever it was, it had enough power to bend steel rails and to tear
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giant hawsers into shreds, a force beyond anything in common use at
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the time.
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In December, 1882, the angry investors demanded a showdown... and
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got it. Keely agred to reveal the secret of his mystery motor to
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any scientist the committee named. They selected Edward Bakel...
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who saw and was convinced.
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He reported to the unhappy investors that, while he did not
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understand all that he had seen, he understood enough to know that
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Keely had discovered all he had claimed.
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Keely's luck ran out in 1888, and the stockholders had him sent to
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jail for ignoring a court order to reveal his secret. A wealthy
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widow financed him for the next ten years, to the end of his life in
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1898.
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The stockholders wrecked his shop, finally came upon a huge steel
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ball which contained compressed air. There was nothing new about
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that; for Keely had often shown the sphere to interested parties,
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and its pipes were inadequate to have operated at the pressures
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indicated by the performance of the machine.
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Vangard Notes >>>
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This steel sphere weighed over 6000 pounds and was buried under
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the floor of Keely's lab. The fact that it was in such a place
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and obviously had compressed air led many to believe this to be
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the force which Keely used in his demonstrations.
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Other accusers of fraud have specified hydraulics in the form of
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water to create Keely's force. That force is said to have
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reached upward of 30,000 PSI and this achieved from the
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dissociation of 3 to 6 drops of water.
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If Keely could create such tremendous pressures using either air
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or hydraulics, he would have been a millionaire many times over.
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The interesting thing about all his detractors is that NO ONE
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could even begin to duplicate his demonstrations using ANY KNOWN
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principle of physics at that time.
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Our researches indicate that the sphere was used by Keely in his
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early days as a holder for the etheric force which took on the
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form of a highly compressible vapor. Refer to other files in
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the file 9 section for more information relating to this and
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other Keely information.
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One of the most disgusting things about the Keely literature is
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how all the vultures descended on his lab ONLY AFTER HIS DEATH
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to find what they were sure was fraud. No credible scientists
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would investigate him during his life, nor endorse his work
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publicly.
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The secret of Keely's mystery motor died with him. Scientists could
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never agree on how it had operated. The witnesses agreed on only one
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thing; the engine made a humming sound.
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The question remains: Were they hearing the birth pangs of a great
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discovery ... or merely the persuasive hum of a humbug?
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Submitted by; Ronald Barker
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Vangard Sciences
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If you have comments or other information relating to such topics
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as this paper covers, please upload to KeelyNet or send to the
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Vangard Sciences address as listed on the first page.
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Thank you for your consideration, interest and support.
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Jerry W. Decker.........Ron Barker...........Chuck Henderson
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Vangard Sciences/KeelyNet
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If we can be of service, you may contact
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Jerry at (214) 324-8741 or Ron at (214) 242-9346
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