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Voice From the Past

  • August 3, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

In April 2013, Smithsonian researchers studying early sound recordings made at Alexander Graham Bell’s Volta Laboratory found a hidden gem: a recording of Bell speaking. It was the first time historians had heard the actual voice of the man who invented the telephone.

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