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Re: VMs: FEELY

Nick Pelling wrote:

At 14:39 20/03/2005 +0100, Jean-Yves Artero wrote:

Author: Feely, Joseph Martin
Title: A Cypher Idyll Anent The Little Westerne Flower
Publisher: Rochester, NY: Joseph Martin Feely, 1942

Well, the British Library doesn't have a copy, so this certainly seems a genuine rarity. 

	Synchronicity again!  It so happens that I was just
thinking of Feely.   I had been thinking that there was a
late 19th century free energy quack by the same name, and
that our favorite publication had endorsed him.

After seeing these notes, I checked and found I had things a little mixed up. The quack in question was John Worrell Keely, and our favorite publication in fact debunked him fairly decisively:

http://www.keelynet.com/keely/sci1899.txt

This article concludes, "it is to be hoped that, once for all, the Keely motor may be considered to be exposed, though we have no doubt that, like the scotched snake, the tail may still continue to wiggle," as indeed it still does over 100 years later. Plus ca change...

Definitely OT,
Dennis



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