- Sympathetic
Vibratory Physics - It's
a Musical Universe!
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- SOME TRUTHS ABOUT
KEELY.
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- By MRS. BLOOMFIELD MOORE.
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- New York Home Journal, Volume II, January,
1896
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- Long ago Mr. Keely said: "Science must hold the helm before
the commercial value of my discoveries can be made known and
comprehended." The speculative management prevailing has seized
the reins of guidance so often that it has now become necessary to
place the helm beyond its reach, in order that this richly
freighted barque may not again be diverted from its proper course.
Mr. Keely has been accused of refusing to teach his processes, but
until within five years he had nothing to teach. It was Nature's
secrets that he was doing battle with and daily risking his life
to conquer.
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- Since 1892 he has held himself in readiness to instruct
Professor Dewar (the resident physicist of the Royal Institution
of Great Britain) in his process of dissociation; one of our best
known American physicists having refused to receive this
instruction, simply because of the "stock-booming" operations that
have invariably followed upon all efforts of men of science (or of
capital) to acquaint themselves with the merits of the claims made
by others for Keely.
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- The article prepared in 1893, by the Rev. Dr. Plumb of Boston,
in its description of what lh called "a subsidiary engine,"
brought fresh discredit on Keely in the opinion of educated and
able men, and avalanches of ridicule from the ordinary
journalists. The wheel described by Dr. Plumb was not an engine in
any sense of the word. It was a machine that is a marvel of
construction, entirely independent of centrifugal action, for
diverting the polar current of apergy to do its work on its
mechanical harness.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer gave out, in printing this paper,
that it had been written by an eminent scientist of Boston. The
statements made therein were sufficient to establish in the minds
of men of science the conviction that Keely, whom they held
responsible for them all, was the "perpetual motion crank" he had
been called, and too darkly ignorant of the simplest canons of
orthodox physics to know the blunders he was making in his
statements.
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- W. L. S., a Boston man of science, resenting this assertion of
the Inquirer, undertook to reply in behalf of his maligned
associates, succeeding - so well that all men unacquainted with
the system of vibratory physics considered Keely completely
annihilated and thought he would never be heard from again. Said
W. L. S.: "Take the description of the seventy-two pound wheel,
with eight spokes and a hollow hub, but no rim, running at a speed
so fast that the camera could not catch it and obtain a sharp
image. If we estimate, from this and the description, the probable
speed and then allow twenty-five per cent for safety, and figure
out the centrifugal tension in the spokes, assuming both spokes
and hub made of the best wrought iron, we find it would come out
something like one hundred and fifty times the breaking strength
of the iron; so it seems to me it would be exceedingly dangerous
to stay long within range of that wheel . . . . . I will end by
calling Dr. Plumb's attention to the fact that there is in Boston,
not half a mile from the post office, a perpetual motion machine
now on exhibition; where the unwary are invited to enter, examine
and subscribe. It is a waste of time to go to Philadelphia." -W.
L. S., Jan. 17th, 1894.
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- It is no matter of surprise that, after such an apparent
exposure of Keely's ignorance, New Eng-land journals which had up
to that time printed articles defending Keely, refused them
afterwards. A brief mention of the helpers on this underground
road, which Keely had so long been traveling without gaining a ray
of light, should be of interest, now that the labyrinth is lighted
with the effulgence of "The Dawn," in his discovery of the current
of apergy.
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- About fifteen years ago H. O. Ward became interested in
Keely's discoveries by hearing two Englishmen on board of a
steamship discussing the nature of the mysterious force which they
had been sent over by the English Government to investigate.
Possessing certain eccentricities of character, such as
persistency of purpose and a determination to reach the root of
things before adopting the opinions of others regarding them, a
visit was made in time to Keely's workshop, which eventually led
to the forming of a conjecture that Keely might have dissociated
hydrogen. Upon suggesting this possibility to him, he replied:
"Perhaps so, I do not know," but the suggestion fell on pregnant
soil and started Keely into making efforts to vibrate hydrogen,
with such results that his field of experiment was greatly
widened. The same possibility named to Lord Rayleigh brought this
answer: "I will bet you ten thousand pounds he has not; hydrogen
is an element." "I know it is classed with the elements," was the
answer, "but science, starting with three only, now has over
seventy. Why may not more compounds be found?" Lord Rayleigh a few
years later refused to repeat his bet.
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- In 1884, Macvicar's "Sketch of a Philosophy" was brought to
the notice of H. O. Ward (by Dr. Andrew of King's College
Belfast), who compiled from it "Ether, The True Protoplasm."
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- The late Robert Browning, before reading the monograph,
remarked to its writer that the word "protoplasm" was not a
suitable one to employ in connection with the ether. The writer
replied: "I am hoping to convince the world of science that ether
is matter."[1] Dr. Richard Garnett, the learned
librarian of the British Museum, sent the manuscript to the late
Dr. Chapman, then editor of the The Westminster, who gave his
opinion that it was fifty years too soon for its publication. The
Home Journal of iiew York then became one of the helpers on the
road and published it entire.
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- Those who constitute the vanguard of science are now ready to
receive many of Dr. Macvicar's views, which were not appreciated
in his lifetime. Keely at once understood them, and knew that he
had imprisoned the ether; though making the error of thinking that
it was the force itself, instead of the always necessary medium of
its manifestation in our atmosphere.
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- This was four years before the distinguished Henri Hertz, late
professor of physics in Bonn University, announced in the Revue
Scientifique that all our electro-magnetic engines held the ether
fast bound without this fact having been so much as suspected.
Then, one of the best-known British physicists said; "If we have
done this, why is it not possible that Keely has done the
same?"
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- A copy of "Ether the True Protoplasm," published in 1884, in
galley-proof slips, was sent, in 1885, to Professor Rueker, of the
Kensington School of Science, who paid no attention to it, much to
the disappointment of its writer at the time; but in 1889, in an
address delivered at Cardiff before the Royal Association, he
remarked that men of science were then investigating the structure
of the ether, which might prove to be the source of all matter,
and which might yet be used and controlled as we now use and
control steam.
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- Prof. Dewar sent a copy of this paper to H. O. Ward, who
replied with a request that the professor would inform the learned
physicist that Keely had spent years of his life in vain attempts
to use and control it in engines only to find that this can never
be accomplished.
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- The next helper on the road was the late Mrs. F. J. Hughes, a
grand-niece of Erastus Darwin, whose book on "The Evolution of
Tones and Colours," Mr. Keely says saved him years of research in
the realm of inaudible sounds.
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- Yet, with all this assistance, which seemed to come by chance,
the goal of Keely's stupendous efforts would never have been
reached, so dark was the labyrinth in which be was wandering, had
not one of the books of our late townsman, Dr. Seth Pancoast, been
brought it to his notice. It was on a page of this record of the
wisdom of the ancients that Keely learned he had captured one of
the currents of a triune polar stream of force; and from that hour
be abandoned all efforts to imprison the ether in a metallic
structure; devoting his days, and often his nights, to the gaining
of a knowledge of the operations of apergy in nature. In 1893 he
succeeded in demonstrating to his own satisfaction that he had
fastened his machinery to the very wheelworks of the
universe.[2]
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- Until this time he held this "secret of nature" locked within
his own breast; for never once, in his nearly quarter of a century
of research, has Mr. Keely broached a theory until he has proved
it by demonstration.
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- The position taken at the last stockholders' meeting gives
evidence that Keely's magnanimity of character has never been
appreciated by those who have taken advanatage of it in their
business transactions with him. But he cannot be forced into
further concessions nor into further delay. The ultimatum is
reached. The risk of the loss of these discoveries to the world is
too great to admit of giving one thought to mistaken and
short-sighted counsels. Science must not be robbed of her
birthright to satisfy the greed of Mammon.
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- There are from twenty to thirty instruments to be patented in
Keely's system of sympathetic vibratory physics. Months of
valuable time are lost, which might have been occupied in
preparations for the taking out of patents, had Keely's generous
proposition been accepted as promptly as it deserved to be. The
spiro-vibrophonic system alone requires eight or ten patents; the
resonating five or six more; the vitalizing six, which must be
preceded by the setting up of a vibratory dynamo that would take
weeks to construct and graduate. The sympathetic transmitting
system will require months, with its adjuncts, to get into a
patentable condition; and the sympathetic governor of course must
be patented if the other instruments are.
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- Mr. Keely will not again yield his judgment to the wishes of
others, as he did in this instance to his co-worker; for both have
seen the folly of it. From the first he has maintained his
convictions that no physicist will be able to stand by him until
his work is completed; owing to the manipulations in stock that
have followed any consent from distinguished men of science to
witness his processes, each time H. O. Ward has announced that
they were going to do so within the last seven years. Keely's
systems will now be brought out on royalties for the benefit of
the shareholders and of the world, instead of for monopolies.
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- A New York journalist recently, in an article headed "Keely's
Motor and its Future," tells his readers that "Keely finally
settled" in Philadelphia. Born in this city, he has steadfastly
abided here, using a stable as his workshop.
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- In conclusion, it may be stated that the force named in this
paper Apergy, known to the ancients, and rediscovered by Keely,
will hereafter be given the appropriate title of Keel, after the
name of its latest discoverer.
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- 1) In vibratory physics spirit is matter.
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- 2) See a work by Prof. Kedzie, of Chicago, on "Solar Heat,
Gravitation and Sun Spots," showing how this everlasting and
important "etheric vibration" is manifested in nature.
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