Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Alexander Graham Bell recordings played from 1880s (AP)

 

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Scientists Carl Haber shows the frequencies of the sound recorded in 1885 by Alexander Graham Bell at Volta Laboratory, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011, during a news conference at Library of Congress in Washington. Early sound recordings by telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell and others that had been packed way at the Smithsonian Institution for more than a century were played publicly for the first time Tuesday using new technology. The recordings revealed a portion of Hamlet's Soliloquy, a trill of the tongue and someone reciting numbers starting with 1-2-3. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - Early sound recordings by Alexander Graham Bell that were packed away at the Smithsonian Institution for more than a century were played publicly for the first time Tuesday using new technology that reads the sound with light and a 3D camera.

Alexander Graham Bell recordings played from 1880s (AP)
Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:43:44 GMT

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