History of the Typewriter

— 77 — Fig. 59 The first model of the Yost was made in 1888, but it was not until two years later that it was submitted to the public. Although its general outlines were very much the same as its predecessors, yet it differed from them in many very important respects. The net work of connecting wires and levers which, to the uninitiated, convey such ideas of complexity and complication in other machines (although such ideas are generally wrongly formed) were hidden from sight, and protected from dust and curious and meddlesome fingers by sheaths placed all around the working parts. These sheaths were, how- ever, capable of being removed for cleaning purposes, or when the maximum of quietness was desired.