tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-636068312591857663.post5471395493969038626..comments2024-03-27T12:10:03.910-04:00Comments on Remember Jamaica Plain?: T.B. Kinraide And The Keely MotorMark B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03524735496130204611noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-636068312591857663.post-84446023246168277132013-11-06T15:54:41.564-05:002013-11-06T15:54:41.564-05:00Dear good historically-minded people of Jamaica Pl...Dear good historically-minded people of Jamaica Plain, <br />Your writer, in his characterisation of the inventor John Keely, has not read enough about Keely to be able to distinguish Keely's financial fraud from any scientific fraud. The financial fraud, by which Keely benefitted greatly, the money giving him the freedom to work himself to death spending every cent trying to perfect an engine on one principle or another from the many principles of physics which he kept discovering, long after his stake in the business had become entirely dilute - this fraud stands in sharp contrast to his scientific genius. At the time he started to produce his inventions, it was not even commonly agreed that splitting the atom would release energy. And yet his model off the atom is very like that for which Feinstein won the Nobel prize in the 1970's, some 100 years later. As a poor European I am inclined to marvel at how Keely remains unforgiveable after all this time, while having clearly been shown to be in a financial impasse regarding merely handing over the knowledge he had. The man was willingly offered finance, and on it he carried out a lifetime of scientific research, and had the universities not made the same mistake your writer is making here, they would have paid him for his old machines rather than have seen them sold for scrap iron to pay for the next experiment, and we would be in a much better position to appreciate the almost divine beauty of Keely's conception and his sacrifice. Here was a man who could drive a motor by playing a flute. And yet he was expected also to develop the industry from the principle which he had first discovered. Not asking much, are we ? Just so long as the stockholders don't look too stupid, we could grant that he was an actual inventor. You Jamaica Plain folk should politely point a ground-penetrating radar at the foundations of the Ravenscroft former home in Spring Park Avenue of Mr Kinraide and hope to God that there's a space under there with a trunk of Keely documents, and if there is, sell everything you own to publish them, and then you'll just about be worthy to wipe the dust off any one of Keely's machines, of which Henri Hertz, shown pictures of these, said: "No-one who makes such machines is a fraud". Keely's closest friends were his fiercest supporters, Clara Bloomfield Moore for example. No-one gives his life, as Keely did, to perpetrate a fraud. You have done everyone a disservice by perpetuating this misconception, which serves also to deprive us of the free energy which any recovery of his works might bring. As Kipling, whom you mentioned, wrote, we should "Read what Fludd the seeker says/ about the Dominant which runs/ across the cycle of the Suns". This music of the spheres was the wheelwork of nature to which Keely coupled his machines. We must work to find out what Keely knew, and rejoice in it. <br />Roland van der Plas, Aberdeen, ScotlandRoland van der Plashttp://btinternet.comnoreply@blogger.com