Keely and His Discoveries: Aerial Navigation

All the great things of time have been done by single men, from Judas Maccabeus down to Cromwell. We hear the age spoken of as degenerative because of the vast accumulations of...

Tizeau found that the speed of light is increased in water which moves in the same direction as the light. This result must be due either to the motion of matter through the med...

"Evermore brave feet in all the ages Climb the heights that hide the coming day,-- Evermore they cry, these seers and sages, From their cloud, 'Our doctrines make no way.' All t...

"Philosophy must finally endeavour to be itself constructive." Here Professor Seth laid stress on the necessity of a teleological view of the universe, not in the paltry, mechan...

We must become as little children, not presuming to think of causes efficient, or causes final; for these are things we cannot grasp; but reverently and patiently waiting until,...

All that has been predicted of atoms, their attractions and repulsions, according to the primary laws of their being, only becomes intelligible when we assume the presence of mi...

It was in India that man first recognized the fact that force is indestructible and eternal. This implies ideas more or less distinct of that which we now term its correlation a...

For thou well knowest that the imbecility of our understanding, in not comprehending the more abstruse and retired causes of things, is not to be ascribed to any defect in their...

For it is well known that bodies act upon one another by the attraction of gravity, magnetism, and electricity; and these instances show the tenour and course of Nature and make...

When the Almighty is taking men into His deeper confidence as to His Creation ways, and how His ways may be taken advantage of for man's service and benefit, the gifted one thro...

It may be said that if all things come from only one cause or internal source, acting within itself, then motion and matter must be fundamentally and essentially one and the sam...

Is not ether infinitely more rare and more subtle than air, and exceedingly more elastic and more active? Does it not easily penetrate all bodies? And is it not by its elastic f...

We seem to be approaching a theory as to the construction of ether. Hertz has produced vibrations, vibrating more than one hundred million times per second. He made use of the p...

Blindfolded and alone we stand, With unknown thresholds on each hand: The darkness deepens as we grope, Afraid to fear, afraid to hope. Yet this one thing we learn to know Each...

The teleological view was opposed to the mechanical, which regarded the universe as a collocation of mere facts without any further significance. The mechanical view looked back...

Thus, either present elements are the true elements, or there is a probability of eventually obtaining some more high and general power of Nature, even than electricity; and whi...

The researches of Lodge in England and of Hertz in Germany give us an almost infinite range of ethereal vibrations.... Here is unfolded to us a new and astonishing world,--one w...

"Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsena...

Science has been compared to a stately and wide-spreading tree, stretching outward and upward its ever-growing boughs. As yet mankind has reached only to its lowermost branches,...

In November 1884, Mr. Keely obtained a standard for progressive research in the success of an experiment, which he had tried many times before, without arriving at the result th...

Within the half-century the hypothetical ether has amply vindicated its novel claim to take its place as a mysterious entity side by side with matter and energy among the ultima...

I know medicine is called a science. It is nothing like a science. It is a great humbug! Doctors are mere empirics when they are not charlatans. We are as ignorant as men can be...

Those who occupy themselves with the mysteries of molecular vibration bear the victorious wreaths of successful discovery, and show that every atom teems with wonders not less i...

volume would represent an antagonistic twentieth against the shell's mass concordance, to equate which it would be necessary to so graduate the shell's internal adjuncts as to g...

(The cause is hidden, the power is most apparent.) Electricity is in principle as material as water; so it appears, and Mr. Carl Hering has expressed the fact with much of clear...