THE KEELY MOTOR HOAX
This article about John Keely appeared in a book called `FOIBLES AND FALLACIES OF SCIENCE' written in 1924. Vangard Sciences presents all information available, both pro and con to let the individual researcher decide for himself. Found in a Michigan bookstore and contributed by Ron Barker. THE KEELY MOTOR HOAX After the search for perpetual motion was abandoned by true scientists, and the fallacy became too generally recognized to make it a means of coaxing money from the credulous investor, the idea took the no less insidious character of a machine which required a constant moderate supply of power from an outside source, but would return this many times over. This result was to be accomplished by means of special mechanical actions or reactions which were declared to be either wholly new discoveries, or else actions that were