Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12
American Inventors Electric Ma
chine Sheds Silence Like Lamp
Casts Light-Price Within
ReaCh-First Test in Hospital,
His 'Sounder' Jars Rusty Mechan-
ism of Ear Into Activity-TeIIs
How Bath Tub Furnished the
Inspiration for Gun MuHIer,

In less imam one year IlltdLl ISEG9
Maxim. inventor Of the Maxim gun
snencer is going to hush every I'M
r7easant noise in Atlanta, Boston,
New York, Chicago, or any other
place. The cars and trains will go on
laundering, the wheels will rattle,
Whistles will shrek, cries of hawkers
and children will fill the streets; but
Won. sitting at home, in your office. in
railway train or the street cars,
..I hear none of this. The cars will
.f.her rattle nor thunder. The
Gets will bear only dead silence to
son.
u sounds Utopian-like one of the
ams Of a Wells. 1t is a reality.
Hiram Percy Maxim, son of Hiram
Maxim. the machine gun wizard, not
OILY promises all this, but in his
aouse, No. $50 Prospect avenue, Hart
ford. Conn, he has the device with
which he has proved that it can be
cone This little instrument is the
elimination of a lifelong dream in
which the inventor has sacrificed years
CT pasn=taking effort in investigative
tesearch.
Silence Is Almost Uncanuy.
In operations effected by the mere
pressing of an electric button any
single room or section of a room can
be made absolutely proof against
noise. With this simple yet marvel
GUS mechanism in operation, Mrs.
Maxim, waiting for her husband to
return from his laboratory for din
neg at night, fails to hear his auto
mobile when it is driven up the road
way. directly beneath the window
where she is sitting, to the garage at
the rear of the house.
She can not detect Mr.. Maxim
when he comes up the front steps OF
the house No noise is audible to her
ears when he fits the key in the lock
and noisily enters the wide English
hallway. Only when the sixth sense
of intuition warns her is she aware
that her husband has entered the
room where she is sitting and Is
crossing to greet her.
There is something almost uncanny
about this wonderful silencer which,
in less than ten months from now, the
inventor will demonstrate publicly by
first installing it in the ward of a
New York hospital. The moment it
is placed in this ward every outside
noise heard there will cease.
Even the Deaf May Hear.
1t will be exactly as if this section
Of the hospital were alone by itself
apart from the rest of the building
and of the city-dropped down among
the snences of a desert or plain. Fur
thermore, to each patient in the ward
It will be as If no other patients were
there, as far as sounds are concerned.
Every sound of pain and suffering
win be screened and each patient
will hear only sounds uttered by him
self
In connection with the silencer Mr..
e+aAllt mas ptIltCACu ettAp1AASA ma -
GUS device which he refers to as
by product" of the silencer, whereby
q deaf person who can detect and
distinguish sounds by telephone or
when riding in trains or cars, but who
otherwise is shut in as far as noise Is
concerned, will be able to hear per
fectly well whether at home. in
church, at the theater or in any
other public place, and will no longer
suffer the slightest inconvenience
from his ailment except when the
sounder is inaccessible to him-as,
for instance, when out walking. This
second device, like the first, to which
q. is a sort of supplement, has been
tested with repeated success by Mr..
Maxim and will, the inventor de-
e.ares. soon be placed in general use.
AT the theater, for instance, GER
t1in row of chairs can be reserved
for deaf persons" explains Mr.. Max
I'm. Where it is now possible to drop
70 cents IN a slot and get a pair OF
opera glasses it will be arranged, in
stead, for one to get an electric cur
rent for his dime, this current oper-
ating the sounder and making it pos
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