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June 28, 1991
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KEELY2.ASC
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This file is from the December 3, 1898 Scientific American.
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The Death of John Keely
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With the death of John W. Keely, one of the most curious delusions
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of the nineteenth century passes away. Over thirty years ago Keely
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announced that he had discovered a mysterious power of immense
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capabilities of industrial application, and ever since that time he
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has been more or less in the public eye.
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For a generation scientific men have laughed at the news of the
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wonders of Keely's discoveries, but Keely died before he had ever
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given a satisfactory demonstration that his ideas could be
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successfully adapted to commercial use. (??? B.S)
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One part of Keely's invention was certainly practicable. He
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understood thoroughly the art of getting money upon schemes which
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would have turned the head of that early adventurer, John Law, in
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his Mississippi Schemes.
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The capitalization of the Keely Company was $5,000,000, and so far
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as his counsel knows, no statement has been left by Keely that
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discloses the secret of his motor, and the only legacy of the
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corporation may be the mechanical apparatus in the Keely workshop,
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minus the secret by which it might be operated.
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In some respects Mr. Keely was a remarkable man. He was an expert
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in the theory and art of MUSIC, and he was not only an
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instrumentalist, but a composer as well, and was, by reason of his
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attainments in this line, enabled to find the primary element of his
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alleged discovery.
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This was supposed to be a relation or affinity between the forces of
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nature and harmonic forces. He said he discovered a sympathetic
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vibration CONNECTING THE WAVES OF SOUND WITH THE DISTURBANCE IN THE
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MOLECULES OF MATTER, and also found in the process of this peculiar
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disturbance an energy unkown to the sphere of dynamics.
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His first experiments were made with drops of water in a vacuum.
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The first mechanical property he developed from this series of
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experiments was the force of ADHESIVE ATTRACTION, which he assumed,
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in his own statements, to be RELATED TO THE POLAR CURRENTS OF THE
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EARTH.
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Next he alleged that he had developed the FORCE OF PROPULSION,
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revealing a POSITIVE as well as a NEGATIVE energy.
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Just as the chemical separation of the molecules of water produce
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electro-magnetism, he adopted the theory that he could DISINTEGRATE
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MOLECULES by the SYMPATHETIC VIBRATION OF TONES producing a subtle
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and HIGHER FORCE CORRELATED WITH MAGNETISM.
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He made startling propositions relative to the rotation of the
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planets, etc., and many other equally wild and chimeric ideas.
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About twelve years (1886) ago he abandoned his experiments upon the
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molecules of water as the basis of his texts and directed his
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attention to the molecules of the air. He stated that he could
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produce a dynamic energy of 10,000 pounds to the inch in a
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Torricellian vacuum.
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He gave some experiments at the Sandy Hook Proving Grounds, in 1888,
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in the presence of a number of skeptics. Keely declared he could
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exhaust the air from a tube, getting a vacuum very nearly perfect,
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and could thus generate a force that could fire a gun or move tons
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of matter.
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Whatever the substance was that Keely carried in his steel tube, it
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was apparently INEXHAUSTIBLE, which MILITATED AGAINST THE IDEA THAT
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HE USED COMPRESSED AIR. (how do we downplay this, they ask???)
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Keely devised an enormous number of mechanisms to aid in convincing
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skeptics that this mysterious atomic energy could be put to
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practical use. He died without effecting this purpose, and whether
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the mass of the manuscript which he left will be of any value or
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not, remains to be seen.
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Keely surrounded himself with a halo of mystery and worked for a
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long time in the most absolute secrecy, making extravagant claims
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and promises as to the miracles which he would perform with his
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mechanism, the "inter-etheric liberator."
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Here is a specimen of one of the bulletins which regularly emanated
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from the laboratory. In 1875 he proposed, in about six months, to
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run a train of thirty cars from Philadelphia to New York, at the
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rate of a mile a minute, with ONE SMALL ENGINE. He said:
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"I will draw the power all out of as much water as you
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can hold in the palm of your hand. A bucket of water
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contains enough of this vapor to produce a power sufficient
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to move the world out of its course. An ordinary steamship
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can be run so fast with it that it would be split in two."
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Keely used to give astonishing exhibitions at his laboratory, which
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mystified everyone. The wand of the prestidigitator and the slate
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of the medium were exchaned in his person for a couple of tuning
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forks and a violin bow. He struck his tuning forks and set a brass
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ball running at 600 revolutions a minute.
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He would rasp a violin bow over a tuning fork and the apparatus
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would RAISE A HEAVY WEIGHT, the power exercised, he said, being
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equal to a pressure of 25,000 pounds to the square inch.
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Some of those present at the seances, which occurred in 1885,
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thought they had witnessed miracles, others concluded that they had
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been humbugged. Some of the stockholders were not satisfied that
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they had not been duped, and very naturally, they wanted the
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mysteries explained.
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Legal proceedings were instituted, and on November 17, 1888, Keely
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was committed to jail for contempt of court in refusing to obey an
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order to explain the workings of his machine to a committee of
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experts. (assuming they could even comprehend it...)
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He did not, however, remain in jail very long. To the very last he
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never failed to get financial support, which enabled him to live
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very comfortably and pay for all his experiments.
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The SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN regularly took up the claims of Keely and
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exposed the fallacy of the principle upon which they were based.
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Vangard notes...
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In the light of modern scientific discoveries, the work of
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Keely is shown to have been far ahead of even our time. A pity
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that magazines wrote such negative and obviously biased
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articles without investigating in depth.
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Many of the scientists who visited Keely, including Hertz and
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Tyndall, declared that Keely had discovered a force beyond
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their ability to comprehend, let alone duplicate.
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