The Bernie Madoff of the 1800s and His Perpetual Money Motion Machine

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Would you have liked to have invested in the greatest invention of all time?  A machine that almost revolutionized the world and could have provided cheap, efficient energy to mankind for centuries to come!  Then John Keely had the machine for you. Once perfected, the “hydro-pneumatic pulsating vacuo-motor engine” would have been used by every person in the world and would have made you rich.

If you wanted to profit from the opportunity of a lifetime, then you should have invested in the Keely Motor Company.    Unfortunately, the company no longer exists since Keely died in 1898. While Keely managed to make himself a rich man, his investors did not share the same fate. Nonetheless, the story of his perpetual motion machine will surely fascinate you.

H2O EXTRACTS GAS AND ATTRACTS MONEY
Born in Philadelphia on September 3, 1837, John Ernst Worrell Keely worked  various jobs as a young man, as a member of a theatrical orchestra, a painter, a carpenter, a carnival barker, and as a mechanic.  Then in 1872, he announced the discovery of a machine that could revolutionize the world. He said he had discovered a new physical force that could produce phenomenal power, never before heard of.

Keely proposed to use the power of atoms in water to create perpetual motion.  Since water covers more of the earth than land, the fuel for his machine would be cheap and readily available for all of mankind to benefit from. Keely’s basic  idea, as he explained it to his awed listeners, was that atoms were in constant vibration, so all you had to do was to harness and channel the random vibrations of the atoms within water and you could produce unlimited energy. If you could get atoms to vibrate in unison, you could use their “etheric force” to run any motor of any size.

To promote his discovery, Keely went on a speaking tour to share his great discovery with the world.  At each engagement, someone in the audience would ask “How did you come to this great discovery?”    Keely would explain to the audience that the revelation had hit him while he was playing a few notes on the violin.  The notes on the instrument had set in motion harmonic vibrations, and in a moment of serendipitous inspiration, he had realized that the vibrations of atoms could be used to create energy just as the vibration of notes could be used to create music that could soothe the beast.

Keely’s next stop was New York where he invited potential investors to the plush hotel he was staying at on Fifth Avenue. There, in his expansive suite with velvet chairs, chandeliers and extravagant mirrors, Keely explained his invention to potential investors while serving them delicacies to eat and liquor and champagne to savor and imbibe.

Bankers, businessmen, engineers, lawyers, and other rich investors went to the hotel to invest in the sensation of the century.  Soon after, with his first investment of $1 million in hand, he formed the Keely Motor Company.  The corporation quickly grew to $5 million in capitalization.  His investors wondered why the name of John Ernst Worrell Keely shouldn’t stand alongside that of Thomas Alva Edison and Alexander Graham Bell in the pantheon of great American inventors.

ETHERIC DISINTERGRATION
Keely impressed potential investors with phrases such as “quadruple negative harmonics,” “etheric disintegration,” and “atomic triplets” when he revealed his ideas to eager listeners.   Through the “liberator” which was a system of highly sensitive tuning forces, Keely would unleash the secret powers of the universe through his “hydro-pneumatic, pulsating vacuum energy” to solve the world’s energy problems forever....MUCH MORE