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calculations by Westinghouse scientists, this device embodies the first practical application of the well-known principle of vortex motion. Westinghouse engineers have constructed experimental vortex guns in two sizes. The hand model, demonstrated by Dr. Thomas as part of the equipment of a traveling laboratory with which he has been touring the country, is about eight inches in diameter. have days, and for a quarter of a century he guns in was a public character, maintained by nodel, the contributions of those who believed part of in the future of the inventions based on oratory his discovery. an shen . two Good examples of this motion are the common smoke ring which almost all see oe EE od i Be with which he has been touring the The supposed new force was country, is about eight inches in explained by Keely as resulting from diameter. the intermolecular vibrations of ether It shoots a vortex ring with a diameter (Aether). of from two to three inches. which His problem was to construct a travels at a speed of 20 feet per second. machine to respond to the vibrations The ring carries so much force that the and in that way produce power. (Refer impact can be felt at about 25 feet. to the Melde Experiment.) In 1874 he (Source: Popular Science - August- 1942) had advanced far enough in the fabrication of such a machine, or Mini-Bio of: John Ernst Worrell — engine, to permit exhibitions at his Keely Sept. 3, 1827 - Nov. 18, — workshop. 1898 Such results as he could show amazed Inventor and imposter, grew up in the general public, but physicists and Philadelphia, Pa., where his career was engineers declared that the same results tun. Both his parents died while he was could be obtained by employing known an infant and he is not known to have forces, and until Keely would prove the had any schooling after the age of exclusion of such known forces from twelve. his experiments they would refuse to He had been for a time leader of a__ believe in his discovery. small orchestra and in certain more or Nevertheless, the Keely Motor less apocryphal stories he figured as a Company was incorporated and the circus performer. stock was taken in A lasge amounts smokers can blow, and the funnel- Country, is about eight inches in shaped twister cloud familiar to anyone diameter. who has lived in the tornado and It shoots a vortex ring with a diameter cyclone belts of the Middle West. of from two to three inches. which The twister, however, is ONLY travels at a speed of 20 feet per second. HALF OF A VORTEX, it moves only if |The ring carries so much force that the a wind is blowing, and always travels at impact can be felt at about 25 feet. right angles to the ground. (Source: Popular Science - August - 1942) A smoke ring, which is a true VORTEX RING, will move in any Mini-Bio of ; John Ernst Worrell direction, according to the initial Keely Sept. 3, 1827 - Nov. 18, impulse, and owing to the vortex 1898 motion, the smoke will remain in the Inventor and imposter, grew up in ring as long as it is moving. Philadelphia, Pa., where his career was THE MORE RAPID THE MOTION, mn. Both his parents died while he was THE FARTHER THE RING WILL GO an infant and he is not known to have BEFORE BREAKING UP. had any schooling after the age of Mini-Bio of : John Ernst Worrell Keely Sept. 3, 1827 - Nov. 18, 1898 The rings or miniature whirlwinds twelve. his experiments they would refuse to shot from the vortex gun conform to the He had been for a time leader of a _ believe in his discovery. behavior pattern of the smoke ring as small orchestra and in certain more or = Nevertheless, the Keely Motor blown from the mouth. Their size and less apocryphal stories he figured as a Company was incorporated and the velocity, and the distance traveled, circus performer. stock was taken in large amounts depend upon the dimensions of the gun In 1872 he was a journeyman throughout the country. and the force with which it is struck. carpenter, but in the following year, As time passed without the perfection They are always invisible unless smoke when he announced the discovery of a of Kecly’s motor or the securing of or some other visible substance is put new physical force, he seems to have _ patents, the stockholders grew impaticnt into the gun. ceased that occupation for the restofhis and by 1880 payments to the inventor 52¢NEXUS APRIL-MAY 1992 a mS