It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a long way off, and the machine was as big and solid as a battle cruiser. Typing was then a muscular activity. You could ache after it. If you were not familiar with those vast keyboards, your hand wandered over them like a child lost in a wood. The noise might have been that of a shipyard on the Clyde. You would no more have thought of carrying one of those grim structures as you would have thought of travelling with a piano.
[About his first typewriter.]

PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.

When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be reduced to arithmetical computation, the result will appear most astonishing to those...not in the habit of reflecting how many of the mightiest of operations in nature are effected insensibly, without noise or disorder.

[Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being—yet with none of the noise and windy geniality of some folks here , whom you find with their backs turned when you are responding to the remarks that they have made you.