A CALIFORNIAN KEELY MOTOR.
From the San Francisco Examiner, Dec. 29. John Paitsch, a mechanic, who recently moved from San Francisco to Oakland, has invented a machine for utilizing electricity or some other force, which he will not say much about. An Examiner reporter viewed the machine yesterday in company with a civil engineer, and its power surpassed that of any machine ever seen by any of the company. The box in which the machine was enclosed was less than 4 feet long and half that width. The bed of the machine appeared to be simply a hollow box with a small shaft coming through one end, to which was attached a pulley. By touching a little lever at one end the pulley began to revolve with great rapidity. A belt was attached to it and it turned an emery wheel so fast that an inch iron bar held in the hands of the reporter was soon ground down half an inch and was rapidly being eaten away when it grew so hot that it could be held no longer. Other experiments showing an equally great power were given. In speaking of the machine Mr. Paitseh said: ‘I first conceived the idea while a student in Bavaria, and I completed the machine recently. I worked on it while at the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, but I am not yet ready to make public the source.”
Published: January 6, 1889
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