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Two interesting stories about Keely
from personal anecdotes told by Dale Pond,
Dan Davidson and Victor Hansen
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>>> A Run on the Stock Market <<<
Keely was alleged to have invented a mineral disintegrator which
could be tuned to a given substance to reduce it to dust. In this
particular account, the device was tuned to Quartz.
Sometime during the 1880's, Keely was experimenting with an
instrument originally intended to be used to overcome gravity. When
a block of quartz was used as a weight, the intense vibrations
generated by the device partially disintegrated the quartz block.
This came as a surprise to Keely but he analyzed the effect and came
up with a device specifically designed to disintegrate quartz.
As we understand it, the Quartz Disintegrator device was
approximately the size of a Brownie camera with a protruding rod
which in turn supported a vibrating plate. In use, the device was
excited, which transferred the vibration through the rod to a plate
which was made to vibrate over its entire surface. Wherever the
plate was touched to a piece of quartz, disintegration would occur
at that location, leaving only a fine powder.
A group of twelve wealthy businessmen from New York heard of this
experiment and came up with a brilliant idea to make money with the
new technology.
Since quartz contains threads of gold, if the disintegrator could be
used for mining, it could result in large quantities of gold from
relatively worthless mines. The disintegrator would only affect the
quartz and leave the gold behind for harvesting.
So, the businessmen went to Keely's lab in Philadelphia and asked
for a demonstration. Keely placed a block of quartz on a table,
the disintegrator was touched to the surface and within a short
time, a pile of dust was all that remained.
Needless to say, the businessmen were very excited about the process
and asked if Keely could do this at a place of their choosing. Keely
said yes. The businessmen offered to each pay Keely a check in the
amount of $1000.00 if the experiment worked at a site of their
choice.
Within the next few weeks, a site had been selected. This site was
a relatively worthless mine which had a very low yield. In other
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words, the cost of mining and processing the quartz was much greater
than the amount of gold which could be extracted (by normal means).
The site was a quartz vein in the side of a mountain. Keely asked
that the twelve businessmen synchronize their watches. The
disintegrator was excited and Keely applied the vibrating plate to
the face of the quartz vein. Instantly a fine dust began falling
wherever the plate was touched.
Moving the disintegrator in an ever widening circular motion, Keely
created a hole in the quartz about four feet in diameter. As he
proceeded to walk into the vein, the businessmen marvelled at the
exhibition of such a superior mining technology.
After about 15 minutes, Keely came out of the hole which he had just
bored into the now exposed vein. When measured, it was roughly four
feet wide and almost twenty feet deep into the side of the mountain.
On entering the passage, the businessmen picked up the small threads
of unaffected gold which had earlier been suspended in the bulk of
the quartz and now lay on the floor.
Keely received twelve checks, each in the amount of $1000.00 for his
efforts.
The twelve businessmen thanked him and immediately returned to New
York. On their arrival, they immediately began purchasing all the
most worthless gold mining stock they could lay their hands on.
Now, many smaller investors tend to watch the bigger guys hoping to
copy their actions and make a profit. This is done even when they
don't have the whole picture.
In this case, many small investors also began to buy worthless gold
mining stocks. After several months, nothing else happened and the
small investors began to worry. After about a year, the small
investors had to sell their purchases for pennies on the dollar
since they were not in on the Keely Disintegrator secret and could
not afford to wait like the more wealthy investors could.
When Keely ran into trouble with the investors in the Keely Motor
Company, he was ordered by a court to reveal all his secrets to the
Company investors. In a fit of rage, Keely destroyed the Quartz
Disintegrator along with many other one of a kind devices which he
had constructed over a period of many years.
As a result of this, Keely was never again able to duplicate the
Quartz Disintegrator although he stated in later life that he
understood it to a point that he could if he so desired.
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>>> The Harmony of the Spheres <<<
Keely had the honor of exhibiting his Musical Globe at the World's
Fair in the late 1880's. The Musical Globe was a spherical device
which had one side painted white and the other painted black.
When properly tuned, it could be excited by the simple act of
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playing a harmonica. This would cause the Globe to slowly spin
under its own power which was derived from an arrangement of
vibrating components within the sphere.
John Jacob Astor and his entourage were visiting the various
exhibits and had seen little of novelty or interest. However, they
did find Keely's exhibit intriguing.
Keely immediately recognized who Mr. Astor was (and the extent of
his fortune) and spoke with him in private. Keely told Mr. Astor
that the "good stuff" was in his laboratory and he would be only too
happy to demonstrate a fascinating experiment if Mr. Astor could
manage to visit the lab.
Being bored with the rest of the fair, Mr. Astor decided to take
Keely up on the offer and went to the lab.
Now there is a picture taken in Keely's lab which has been of
interest since we first saw it. There is no description or
explanation of what the device is but this story seems to have
something relating to it, as you can clearly see when looking at the
device in the photo.
Shown is a large metal sphere supported in a circular ring. An
outer ring surrounds the inner and supports a number of various
sized smaller spheres.
Keely asked that Mr. Astor stand back and watch closely. He then
went to one of his compound devices and began making adjustments.
When the syren or whatever type of excitation he used was engaged,
the large sphere began to slowly spin on its axis in the inside
ring.
Within minutes, the smaller spheres each began to spin on their axis
at rates proportionate to their diameter. In addition, the smaller
spheres began to orbit the larger central sphere. The smaller ones
spun faster, the larger ones slower, and all seemed to be related to
the large sphere spinning on its axis in the center ring.
After a few minutes of this, the large sphere began to slowly rise
into the air and with it, the smaller spheres also rose, all the
while spinning on their own axis and orbiting the large sphere.
There seemed to be some sort of equator generated by the large
sphere which supported the smaller spheres.
At a certain spot, the large sphere stopped rising and continued to
spin while the smaller spheres of varying size began to fan out.
Each reached a specific orbit which appeared to be a DIRECT ANALOGUE
to our SOLAR SYSTEM.
Just picture this, Keely standing there operating his machine, John
Astor standing with his mouth open, both of them watching this
miniature version of the solar system floating about the room.
Astor reached up and grabbed hold of one of the smaller globes. It
held him off the floor and continued to orbit about the central
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sphere with no diminution of speed or height, Astor laughing
gleefully as he spun about the room.
He eventually let go and walked over to Keely to ask about how this
miracle was done. Keely said that he had indeed modelled the solar
system and that each sphere was harmonically related in size and
frequency to the planets and sun of our system.
When his instrument was properly adjusted and excited, a natural
sympathetic response was generated in each of the spheres to
generate the same effect which makes the worlds move.
Astor asked what would happen if one of the spheres were to lose
control. Keely assured him that the chance of this happening was as
remote as if one of the planets in our system were to drop out of
orbit.
However, Keely had anticipated such a problem and an experiment had
been done to see what the effect might be. An enharmonious chord
was set in to the compound instrument which would cause the sphere
representing the Earth to lose its "tether" to our central sun.
When the chord was played, the Earth sphere slowly moved in a
straight line, creating a hole through the wall of the lab and
disappeared from site.
Seconds later, Keely readjusted the machine to an orderly pattern
which caused the sphere to retrace its path and return to the proper
orbit.
The movie "Explorers" with the electrical point in space is the best
demonstration of this effect that we have come across.
Astor was dumbfounded by the entire experience. We have no further
information on this particular story, so we don't know if Keely got
funding or whatever.
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