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Cool! A 130 Year-Old Recording of Alexander Graham Bell

Bell and Thomas Edison were both on a mission to be the first to record sounds for later playback. Edison won that race with the phonograph but it was Bell who invented the telephone.

No recording of Bell’s voice was thought to have existed, but one has just turned up.  It’s a wax and cardboard disc created by Bell.  But how to play it?  With 3D imagine technology.

The full story can be found at CNET.  Here’s the recording itself.  In case you can’t make it out, he says “Hear my name: Alexander Graham Bell.”

Alan Cross

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