Free Energy Pioneer- John Worrell Keely

by Theo Paijmans

  96. The book contains "The Principles of Matter and Energy,' chapter 4, Keely's 'Forty Laws,' chapter 6, 'The Scale Of Forces,' chapter 8, a short glossary of Keely's terms on pages 5758 and six drawings of Keely's molecule, inserted between pages 55-56. The book is currently in print by Delta Spectrum Research.

  97. On Dashed Against The Rock, see chapter 8 on Colville, see chapter 9.

  98. About John Jacob Astor, see chapter 4, about A Journal in Other Worlds, see chapter 8.

  99. 'Two Hours With Keely. Power without Cost - Engines Which Do Not Move,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, November 11, 1895.

  100. Letter by Clara Bloomfield-Moore, dated May 30, 1894. She copied for her correspondent the excerpt of Keely's letter which she received on May 28 with the remark: 'for you alone' and marked 'confidential.'

  Chapter 4. The Power Millennium: Keely's Last Years

  1. Marc J. Seiffer, Wizard, the Life and Times ofNikola Tesla, Birch Lane Press, 1996, page 161.

  2. 'Advertisement' dated February 18, 1895, The New Scientific Review, undated clipping.

  3. Circular dated February 18, 1895, The New Scientific Review, undated clipping.

  4. ibid.

  5. For a full text of the agreement, see: 'Keely's Discoveries. Financial Support Given For Research Only,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, November 14, 1895.

  6. 'Keely Motor Once More,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, November 6, 1895.

  7. ibid.

  8. 'Keely-Astor Deal is Off,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, November 9, 1895. It appears that Astor met with Keely and Bloomfield-Moore in Philadelphia at least once. Reference to Astor's one time visit in: 'Keely Motor To Be Reorganised,' New York Herald, April 28, 1896. It also appears that Astor became interested in Keely's inventions due to Bloomfield-Moore. Short reference in: 'Sudden Death of Keely's Friend,' New York Herald, January 6, 1899.

  9. 'Keely's Motor,' unspecified clipping, August 11, 1895, Sympathetic Vibratory Homepage, Internet. Very likely this 'enthusiastic advocate' was Clara Bloomfield-Moore. 'Keely Motor To Be Reorganised,' New York Herald, April 28, 1896. Although Astor's purchase of stock is contradicted: 'Neither the Astor syndicate, of which John Jacob Astor, Dr. Seward Webb and Mr. William C. Brewster were members, nor the Vanderbilts - and the fact that the Vanderbilts examined the Keely motor has been hitherto unknown - made purchase of stock.'

  10. Marc J. Seiffer, Wizard, the Life and Times ofNikola Tesla, Birch Lane Press, 1996, page 162.

  11. 'Keely-Astor Deal is Off,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, November 9, 1895. There seem to have been more reasons under the surface of the press coverage; a glimpse is perhaps offered in Bloomfield-Moore's statement that, 'When, on Nov. 5, the unautorized and untrue statements of Col. Astor's transactions were made public I said that plans formed to have the scientific value of Mr. Keely's discoveries acknowledged publicly before commercial success is attained had been refuted for the third time within five years. I then despaired of accomplishing these aims, and Nov. 7, all negotiations with the financiers were abrupdy brought to a close.' In: 'Will Retain Her Privileges,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, November 9, 1895, 'Mrs Moore On The Keely Motor,' New York Times, December 9, 1895. Some weeks later an electrician, J.E. Wright, who was invited to test Keely's claims, said that Bloomfield-Moore 'spoke of Mr. Astor's visit to me laboratory rather bitterly. His interest in me first place, followed by a sudden failure, half puzzled and displeased her. ...The capitalists, she said, did not care for anything except the money which was in me enterprise. Her desire now is to stop speculation, if possible, (and) push the discovery to a final and useful conclusion for the sake of humanity.' In: 'An Expert On Keely's Motor,' New York Herald, January 19, 1896. Some months later, an 'Official denial was given to the report that Astor or Vanderbilt money will be invested in the (Keely Motor) company.' In: 'Affairs of the Keely Company,' New York Times, April 29, 1896.

  12. Marc J. Seiffer, Wizard, the Life and Times ofNikola Tesla, Birch Lane Press, 1996, page 146.

  13. Possibly Theodore Puskas was the same as Tivadar Puskas, whose brother Ferenc was a friend of Tesla. Both ran the American Telephone Exchange. Short references in Marc J. Seiffer, Wizard, the Life and Times ofNikola Tesla, Birch Lane Press, pages 20, 27.

  14. Letter from Nikola Tesla to Bloomfield-Moore, dated December 11, 1894. Copy obtained through Dale Pond.

  15. Letter from Nikola Tesla to Clara Bloomfield-Moore, dated April 18, 1895. Copy obtained through Dale Pond.

  16. Letter from Nikola Tesla to Clara Bloomfield-Moore, dated April 24, 1895. Copy obtained through Dale Pond. This was generally seen as the reason mat Tesla refused to investigate Keely. When Tesla received a telegram from Prof. Dewar of the Royal Institution of Great Britain to represent the institution at Keely's workshop, 'Tesla declined' noted a newspaper, 'His reasons for declining are given in a characteristic letter, addressed to Mrs. Bloomfield-Moore, in which he says: It is my honest conviction that I am far in advance in certain lines of scientific investigation, which I consider of greater importance for mankind. The problems are difficult, even now, after I have investigated them for many years, and my powers are taxed to the utmost, so that I cannot spare the even the smallest effort.' In: 'An Expert On Keely's Motor,' New York Herald, January 19, 1896.

  17. Letter from Nikola Tesla to Clara Bloomfield-Moore, dated May 14, 1895. Copy obtained through Dale Pond.

  18. Marc J. Seiffer, Wizard, the Life and Times ofNikola Tesla, Birch Lane Press, 1996, pages 101-102.

  19. ibid. page 149.

  20. Letter from Nikola Tesla to Bloomfield-Moore, dated October 19, 1895. Copy obtained through Dale Pond.

  21. A fact that is missed. See: Marc J. Seiffer, 'Nikola Tesla & John Hays Hammond Jr., A History of Remote Control Robotics,' in: Steven R. Elswick, editor, 'Proceedings of me 1990 International Tesla Symposium,' International Tesla Society, 1991, pages 1-32, 1-33, Marc J. Seiffer, Wizard, the Life and Times ofNikola Tesla, Birch Lane Press, 1996, pages 63-65. While adorning Tesla with unanimous praise, which of course he rightfully deserves since he was a staggering genius, at the same time the need is felt to refer to Keely as a 'mountebank inventor,' thus missing the real cause; John Jacob Astor.

  22. Marc J. Seiffer, Wizard, the Life and Times ofNikola Tesla, Birch Lane Press, 1996, page 152.

  23. Derek Wilson, The Astors, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1993, page 200.

  24. Marc J. Seiffer, Wizard, the Life and Times ofNikola Tesla, Birch Lane Press, 1996, page 152.

  25. ibid. page 162.

  26. Letter from Clara Bloomfield-Moore, dated June 28, 1893. The mother of Bloomfield-Moore's grandfather was a daughter of General Collins, whose sister married Oliver Wolcott, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. In: Baron Harold De Bildt, 'Ancestry of Clarence Bloomfield Moore of Philadelphia, by the late Clara Jessup Moore,' National Genealogical Society Quarterly, March 1940, page 4.

  27. Letter from Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Atlantic City, dated September 14, 1895. Copy obtained through Dale Pond.

  28. Letter from Clara Bloomfield-Moore, probably written circa August or September, 1895, Sympathetic Vibratory Physics Homepage, Internet.

  29. Marc J. Seiffer, Wizard, the Life and Times ofNikola Tesla, Birch Lane Press, 1996, pages 162-190.

  30. ibid. pages 178-179.

  31. ibid. pages 209-210.

  32. ibid. pages 210-211.

  33. ibid. page 244, also: Marc J. Seiffer, 'Nikola Tesla & John Hays Hammond Jr., A History of Remote Control Robotics,' writes: 'Astor was dismayed...' In: Steven R. Elswick, editor, 'Proceedings of die 1990 International Tesla Symposium,' International Tesla Society, 1991, page 1-34.

  34. ibid. page 361.

  35. 'Two Hours Wim Keely. Power Without Cost - Engines Which Do Not Move,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, November 11, 1895.

  36. 'Keely Engine Not To Be Exhibited,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, November 16, 1895.

  37. 'Keely Motor Com
pany. An Enterprise Practically Wimout Assets,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, December 10, 1895.

  38. ibid.

  39. 'Will Retain Her Privileges,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, November 9, 1895. Her nom-de-plume, when conducting business with Keely, such as me signing of contracts or the issuing of public statements, was H.O. Ward. Also: 'Mrs. Moore on me Keely Motor,' New York Times, December 9, 1895.

  40. 'Keely To Explain. He Agreed To Teach Astor's Expert How To Sensitize Metal,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, December 14, 1895.

  41. 'Clarence B. Moore's Answer,' The Evening Star, December 14, 1895.

  42. 'The Keely Motor,' Evening Bulletin, December 17, 1895.

  43. 'Keely Motor Company,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, December 12, 1895.

  44. 'The Keely Motor,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, December 25, 1895.

  45. 'The Keely Motor. Patents On The Vibratory Machinery To Be Applied For,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, March 3, 1896. Reference to runaway horse in: William Mill Butler, 'Keely and the Keely Motor,' The Home Magazine, 1898, page 114.

  46. ibid.

  47. Letter by John Keely dated March 31, 1896. In: 'Keely Wins. Spirited Meeting Of Stockholders In The Mysterious Motor,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, April 3, 1896.

  48. 'The Keely Motor. Patents On The Vibratory Machinery To Be Applied For,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, March 3, 1896.

  49. 'Keely Wins. Spirited Meeting Of Stockholders In The Mysterious Motor,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, April 3, 1896.

  50. ibid.

  51. ibid.

  52. 'Keely Motor May Soon Mote,' The Times, April 3, 1896.

  53. ibid.

  54. 'The Keely Motor Again,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, April 17, 1896.

  55. 'New Life In Keely Patents,' The Evening Telegraph, April 26, 1896. Also: 'Keely Motor To Be Reorganized,' New York Herald, April 28, 1896, 'Affairs of the Keely Motor Company,' New York Times, April 29, 1896.

  56. Gaston Burridge, 'The Baffling Keely Free Energy Machines,' Fate, vol.10, no.7, 1957, page 43, Carl Sifakis, Hoaxes and Scams, Michael O'Mara Books, 1994, page 141.

  57. 'Support Withdrawn,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, May 9, 1896.

  58. See chapter 2 and chapter 2, note 44.

  59. 'Keely's Vision,' The Evening Telegraph, May 9, 1896.

  60. Letter by Clara Bloomfield-Moore to her son-in-law, Count C.G. von Rosen, September 25, 1891. Although this letter was printed in a pamphlet, I have not been able to discover its bibliographical details. Currendy the letter resides in the Franklin Institute.

  61. Letter of Bloomfield-Moore, dated September 9, 1894. Copy obtained through Dale Pond.

  62. On Hartmann's occult connections and his visit to Keely, see chapter 9.

  63. Francis King, The Secret Rituals of the O.T.O., Samuel Weiser, 1972, page 24. More biographical details on Hartmann found in Nicholas Goodrick-CIarke, The Occult Roots of Nazism, The Aquarian Press, 1985, pages 24-27.

  64. 'Keely's Vision,' The Evening Telegraph, May 9, 1896.

  65. Letter by Clara Bloomfield-Moore to her son-in-law, Count C.G. von Rosen, September

  25, 1891. In the Franklin Institute.

  66. H.P. Blavatsky's Collected Writings, vol. XIII, 1982, page 385.

  67. 'Keely's Vision,' The Evening Telegraph, May 9, 1896.

  68. Letter by Clara Bloomfield-Moore, dated September 14, 1895. Copy obtained through Dale Pond.

  69. 'Keely's Vision,' The Evening Telegraph, May 9, 1896.

  70. ibid.

  71. 'She Lays Down A Great Burden,' The Evening Telegraph, May 11, 1896.

  72. 'The Keely Motor,' The Evening Bulletin, May 11, 1896.

  73. ibid.

  74. 'A Keely Motor Meeting,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, June 5, 1896.

  75. 'Keely Motor Meeting,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, December 10, 1896.

  76. Harper's Weekly, January 2, 1897.

  77. 'Saw Keely Motor Work,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, May 6, 1897. Also: 'Not Yet Doth The Motor Mote,' The Evening Bulletin, May 7, 1897. Also in: 'Keely of Motor Fame is Dead,' The Times, November 19, 1898. In this account, Fransioli is called Francioli, and apart from McNally, the article alleges that he was accompanied by Chief Engineer Pierson of the Metropolitan Traction Company, Chief Electrical Engineer Brown of the Western Union Telegraph Company 'and others of equal note.' Also: 'Not To Use The Keely Motor,' New York Daily Tribune, May 7, 1897, 'Keely Motor Gets A Move On,' 'Wilkes Barre record,' May 11, 1897, 'New Yorkers Visit Keely,' New York Herald, June 20, 1897, 'A Keely Motor Tested,' New York Times, June 20, 1897, 'A Sure Success,' Wilkes Barre Weekly News Dealer, June 20, 1897. Later, Fransioli 'displayed great interest in Mr. Browne's explanation of the mystery behind Keely's long heralded motor.' In: 'What Is The Force Of Keely's Motor?,' New York Herald, August 22, 1897. On G.W. Browne, see chapter 7 and chapter 7 note 118.

  78. Letter by Clara Bloomfield-Moore, dated May 16, 1897.

  79. 'Keely's Etheric Force,' The Evening Bulletin, June 30, 1897. Also: 'A Puzzle For Scientists,' Wilkes Barre Record, June 21, 1897.

  80. The paper was published in the Proceedings of the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia, vol. XIV, no.4, January 1898, and reprinted as a separate pamphlet titled 'The Keely Motor,' by E.A. Scott, active member, read January 8, 1898,' no place, no date. Scott's opinion was preceeded by G.W. Browne, who had 'studied the subject' and published his negative views on the subject in large, illustrated articles. On Browne and his articles, see chapter 7 and chapter 7, note 118.

  81. 'Keely Motor Discussed,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, January 10, 1898.

  82. ibid.

  83. 'The Keely Motor,' The Times, March 26, 1898. Also: 'Personal,' New York Times, March

  26, 1898.

  84. 'Keely Claims At Last To Have Harnessed A New Force,' The Times, March 6, 1898.

  85. ibid.

  86. See: 'An Interesting Crank,' New York Tribune, November 11, 1898.

  87. 'John W. Keely 111,' The Evening Bulletin, November 18, 1898. Also: 'John W. Keely Dead,' New York Daily Tribune, November 19, 1898.

  88. In an earlier account the accident happened at Chestnut street. See also note 45.

  89. 'Keely, Motor Man, Dead. Succumbed After A Week's Illness Of Pneumonia,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, November 19, 1898.

  90. 'Pall Bearers for Keely's Funeral,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, November 22, 1898, 'Inventor Keely's Funeral,' The Times, November 23, 1898.

  91. 'Keely's Funeral,' The Evening Bulletin, November 23, 1898, 'Mr. Keely's Funeral,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, November 24, 1898, 'John W. Keely Laid To Rest,' The Times, November 24, 1898.

  92. 'Keely Of Motor Fame Is Dead,' The Evening Bulletin, November 19, 1898.

  93. 'No Word Of Keely's Will,' The Times, November 20, 1898.

  94. See: 'Mrs. Moore Dead Keely's Patron,' The Evening Bulletin, January 5, 1899. Also: 'Mrs. Moore Dies Broken-Hearted,' The Times, January 6, 1899, 'Her Anxiety Brought Death,' January 6, 1899. 'Mrs. Bloomfield-Moore Dead,' New York Times, January 6, 1899. 'Sudden Death of Keely's Friend,' New York Herald, January 6, 1899.

  95. 'Noted Woman Dead,' Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, January 6, 1899.

  Chapter 5. Into the Void: The Final Stage of the Keely Mystery

  1. Apart from the quotation at the top of this chapter, in Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely and His Discoveries, Aerial Navigation, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893, page 74, see also page 29: '...when me writings of John Worrell Keely...are about to be given to the world,' page 39 where she quotes Keely: 'I have been writing out some of my theories as to sound and odour... I see the time approaching when I will be able to write up my system of me true philosophy of nature's grandest force...,' page 80: 'Keely's Theoretical Expose is in preparation for the press, and, when these volumes are published...,' page 97 where she repeats this statement, and page 151: 'He has determined and
written out a system of the vibratory conditions... ' See also: Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely's Secrets, Theosophical Publishing Society, July, 1888, page 13: 'Mr. Keely's 'Theoretical Expose is nearly ready for the press, and when these volumes are issued...' (she changed this passage in her 1893 book, in which her 1888 pamphlet was incorporated in: 'Keely's Theoretical Expose is in preparation for the press...,' on page 80, so that at that time Keely's volumes weren't published), and page 36; 'Keely's Secret,' The World, May 11, 1890. The reporter also quotes from these proof sheets, and this is one of the rare instances mat a confirmation of me existence of a manuscript from a newspaper source exists (see also note 11). There is a possibility however mat these were proof sheets of Bloomfield-Moore's 1893 book, or her 1888 pamphlet. Other hints are found in an editorial in the Philadelphia Enquirer, January 14, 1894, consisting of a letter written by one Alfred H. Plumb, a scientist from Boston, dated 1894: '...though his writings show a familiarity with scholarly works...,' and in Megargee, 'Seen and Heard in Many Places,' The Times, March 21, 1898: '...For instance, listen to mis from one of Keely's manuscripts... '

  3. William Mill Butler, 'Keely and the Keely Motor,' 1898, page 113.

  4. Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely and His Discoveries, Aerial Navigation, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893, amongst others on pages 32-36, 59, 70, 86, 163, 177-179, 201, 226, 280. Of this, Burridge writes 'It is recorded, Keely wrote extensively about his inventions and theories.' If these writings were ever published, I have found no trace of mem. It is quite evident that Mrs. Moore had full access to their manuscript form, for she quotes Pendulum, a Monthly Digest of Radiesthesia, vol.5, no.3, December 1954, page 539. Article also published in Round Robin, September-October, 1954. Of this, Pond writes: '... a large segment of Bloomfield-Moore's 1893 book is composed of quotes from letters of Keely. She made an attempt to place his name on some of these quotes... ' Correspondence with Dale Pond, dated January 9, 1997.

  5. 'Confession by Mrs. Keely's Attorney. Statement from Charles S. Hill,' in 'Keely The Monumental Fraud of the Century,' New York Times, January 29, 1899.