Talk:John Ernst Worrell Keely

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"She invested $100,000 plus a monthly salary of $250 (around $1.7 million and $500/month in todays values)"

This can't be right, surely?

The ratio of 100k --> 1.7m doesn't equate to 250 --> 500

Thomascjackson (talk) 20:14, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It has been proved to have been an hoax. This page should clearly state it at the beginning, and not relief on external links section at bottom side of the story. Moreover, it should be stressed out, in "present day" section that "etheral theories" of these days today have no consistence at all, and "vibratory ideas" of Keely, the same. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.77.56.182 (talk) 08:21, 30 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It has not been proven a hoax, not at all. There are a great many efforts being made today to re-examine and objectively study the philosophies and works of Keely, Tesla, Russell, and other lesser known inventors of the era. There are multiple accomplishments that Keely himself made, which have been rediscovered or confirmed in modern day science. Research and discernment are our friends, let's keep an open and objective perspective. In my opinion these guys were simply way ahead of their time, pioneers if you will, and very soon we will discover what exactly they were on to but leave it to those of us with authentic interest in discerning the truth through science.− (50.53.159.243 (talk) 19:43, 21 October 2015 (UTC))[reply]

John Keely was not a fraud, his device really work on the vibrations produced by sound. Moreover, this technology is associated with the construction of the "Coral castle" Edward Leedskalnin and is directly associated with the construction of the megaliths (pyramids, mastabas, dolmens) ancient civilizations. They are infrasonic interfaces in the Earth, a direct analogue of ultra long radio waves... All this can easily be repeated (video in YouTube: "How to "melt" stones sound" or the text on the website: http://infrafon.ru/lind.html) Серогор (talk) 17:00, 4 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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"In the 19th century most physicists believed, incorrectly, that all of space was filled with a medium called the "Luminiferous aether" (or "ether"), a hypothetical substance which was thought necessary for the transmission of electromagnetic waves and to the propagation of light, which was believed to be impossible in "empty" space. "

As far as I know current popular physics and mathematical models do not depend on the ether but nothing has ever proven the ether cannot exist. This sort of thought loading seems dangerous. If this is not correct please provide current accepted citations that prove that ether does not exist. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spamlist (talk • contribs) 23:09, 24 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

How can an Encyclopedia label a person as a "fraud" without citing any reliable source? And even worse, the inventor's occupation was defined as "fraud"! I don't know if you guys have ever read an Encyclopedia and therefore I don't think you're ready to write one. 177.27.26.44 (talk) 22:46, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, it should have been "fraudster". Thank you for pointing out the vocabulary error.

You are free to disregard the extensively-cited Philadelphia Press investigation; we have chosen to take it into account. DS (talk) 05:00, 5 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]