The Cairo Bulletin

Noiseless Typewriters.

"Noiseless typewriters will be in use in a few years," said a representative of a large typewriter manufacturing company at the Halliday hotel. "Experts and inventors are now experimenting along that line and will undoubtedly be successful within a comparatively short time, for there is nothing that American inventors undertake to do that is not finally done, and the making of a noiseless typewriter is by no means one of the seemingly impossible tasks. They may not be altogether noiseless but one quarter of the noise now made by the machines will not be made when the plan is perfected.

"One of the greatest annoyances of a large business office today is the racket made by the many typewriters in use. Every sound causes some irritation to the man trying to do brain work and there is much complaining against the present typewriters. The din of the noisy keys also interferes with the use of telephones, where the 'phone is not entirely shut off from the main office.

All this noise causes much irritation and, consequent fatigue at the end of a day's work, and it must be remedied.

"Experimenting that is now being done is with machines which I think will fill the need. They are almost encased in rubber and the sound muffled by several ingenious devices. Sometimes the factories turn out machines for nervous persons, by special order, encased in glass with levers protruding under the glass with which to move the carriage, adjust the paper, etc. These, however, are few and are not entirely satisfactory."