Show DEAD john W keeley the inventor who died in philadelphia on the was either the most unsubstantial among the visionaries vision aries of thedac the day a impostor or a roan man of such profound thought and vast research that 3 the children of men could not keep pace with him of his alleged discoveries the only one ane that became conspicuous and it almost entirely by the voluminous newspaper comment and prodding what was known as the keeley motor this was claimed to be a principle by means of which a hagh degree degre I 1 e of propulsive pressure could be obtained through a volatile ether extracted from cold water and upon it many years and thousands thou of dollars from the credulous and speculative who were let in on the ground floor were spent the first public exhibition of the motor took place on the of na tos vember 1874 before a gathering of scientists and investors who theis advanced to enable him to perfect his plans and make a practical application of the principle then apparently made partly manifest since that time fame work has gone on with tolerable steadiness one design atter after was taken up and discarded until som thing like all told haa been thim tens disposed of the keeley motor company was incorporated and funds were needed as they seemed to have beep very frequently ft was only necessary to levy an assessment the gro ground und having previously been pre ared by means of an exhibition disclosing some new feature or additional addition dl stage of progress 41 1 so it went on to the end band and but for for the recent complete substitution df a new principle entirely would uva apio somewhat monotonous toward towai in 34 the vibratory forces of the air were t to 0 o take the place of the occulted occult ed power resident in water waters probably did so so far as the world knows or results showed for the motor motoe never any work or returned a cent out of the vast sums of money expended upon it or at least upon its inventor among the victims who were werd most prominent was the well known society womba mrs bloomfield moore wio who invested heavily in the enter enterprise alse and whether whet hr she looked with regret or pon the imprisonment of keele keele w which hith took place in 1888 for bontem contempt pt of in refu aing to disclose his fals I 1 se berets not known undoubtedly there WAS something aja 1 the di discovery madi made by keeley and al to undoubtedly was it impossible to tc apply it to locomotive mechanism as the moving force thereof or his mind was not fertile enough to enable hini him iu J make such application very ordinary intellects often make observations vatious and discoveries which are but born to die otherwise unseen whereas had an an edison or a tesla been there a different condition of things might have resulted it seems to have bave been the case that a force of some sort was generated by keeley for the pressure or the effects of it were manifested on several occasions what produced them has never been disclosed and while the whole matter remained a secret except the outward manifestations spoken spoke n of the curious but credulous investors were kept in a paying and reasonably patient mood right along it seems likely that keeley was a yankee in accordance with the con vena vens lonal donal meaning of that word he was smart without being gifted the force which was developed in the presence of the interested may have been the result of purely mechanical agencies operated by other means than abstract generators but to the thoughtful mind tj may occur that the agency developed was not such as could be transmitted to any place or used except where it was generated that is it was 0 a static not a propulsive pressure certainly none of the motors performances bears out any other conclusion cl if this should some time prove to be the case it will seem not a little singular that no one atno among ng the comparatively ively many who invested in tw two 0 ways and inspected once in a while never thought of it certainly there are no means now of finding out bu but t b by y investigation for the secret and the man died boget together her |