After 128 years, came the voice of Graham Bell - News Journal

Thanks to a new technology it was possible to hear the voice of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, who recorded a message on a hard wax in 1885. See the video.

A team of researchers has discovered and identified the voice of the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, who nine years after creating one of the revolutionaries instruments of communication, made another experience, to record your voice a disc of wax, April 15, 1885.

Thanks to technologies related area of ??sound and a 3D scanner, the scientists were able to listen to the recording on a disc made of cardboard covered with wax, which was later donated to the Smithsonian Museum. The disc with the signature “Ouam my voice, Alexander Graham Bell” was heard for the first time, 128 years later, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.

According to the team responsible, this is the only recording of the voice of Bell. The disc was saved several years ago, waiting for a technology that allows listening to audio without damaging the material. S was possible to “read” and retain the cylinder thanks wax reading digital sound made from small notches recorded on the hard wax.

recording with four minutes 52 seconds starts with a count of numbers, with the accent of the Scottish inventor. “Identify the voice of Alexander Graham Bell – the man who brought the voice of all the other people [on the phone] – a great time in the study of the Story,” said John Gray, director of the museum.