Lately, and for the very first time in living memory, sound recordings made in 1881 at Alexander Graham Bell’s Volta Laboratory Association have been heard aloud.The experimental phonographs produced by the association where Bell worked alongside instrument-maker Charles Sumner Tainter and chemist Chichester A. Bell are thought to be the oldest preserved sound recordings intended for playback…
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Section: Science and Education
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
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