Text: (Keely machine) May 20th. "Yesterday was a day of trials and disappointments. After laboring six hours to set my safety process, the first operation of the Liberator tore the caps all to pieces. I replaced them with a set of duplicates and set the liberator down to the low octaves, when everything worked to a charm. Night was approaching ... I left the workshop to get something to eat, returning about eight o'clock to discover the cause of the sudden and most unexpected intensification. I followed up with great care the progressive lines until I reached the tenth octave, and then liberated a score of times, yet no variation on liberator. Next, I made an attachment to my safety arrangement and also to my strongest resonator, to experiment on vibratory rotation with my shell when, within two minutes, it attained a frightful velocity then I suddenly retracted to the negative, bringing the velocity down from about 1500 per minute to 150. The operation lasted sixty-four minutes, when a second intensification took place, demolishing two safety shells and one vibratory indicator. I was perfectly dumb-founded and unable to account for such a phenomenon. After an hour's reflection, I set up a new position on the resonating wave plates in the forty resonating circuit on the base of the liberator, and got a result which for uniformity surpassed all experiments I have ever made. I believe I have ... shall be able to ... obtain continuity of action with perfect rotation." (1) (Keely) August 5th. "I have met with an accident to the Liberator. I was experimenting on the third order of intensification, when the rotation on the circuit was thrown down in the compound resonating chamber, which by the instantaneous multiplication of the volume induced thereby, caused an explosion bursting the metal casing which enclosed the forty resonators, completely dismantling the Liberator. The shock took my senses from me for a few moments, but I was not even scratched this time. A part of the wall was torn away and resonators and vibrators were thrown all over the room. The neighborhood was quite lively but I quieted all fears by telling them ... I was only experimenting. I allowed everything to remain until Dr. Woods and Mr. Collier had seen the effect of the explosion.

See Also: NEUTRAL CENTER, BROWN'S GAS; ETHERIC VAPOR; NEGATIVE CENTER; HYDROGEN; GASES; MOLECULAR; DISSOCIATION

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