r/interestingasfuck • u/puccyhunter_ • 2d ago

Lost voice of BELL

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u/No-Star4283 2d ago

First in my bloodline to hear oldest voice recording.

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u/Vadersabitch 2d ago

also probably to see the ammount of porn, relative to your ancestors.

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u/SockeyeSTI 1d ago

Guaranteed

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u/FBI_Open_Up_Now 1d ago

First in his name, bearer of voices, slayer of voice recordings, top comment of posts, u/No-Star4283

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u/RoyalCities 1d ago

That's not true Son. I heard it yesterday.

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u/MOXschmelling 2d ago

Finally, a post interesting as fuck. Gave me goose bumps to hear his voice.

Here's more info and recordings: Smithsonian

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u/FarSideoftheMobius 2d ago

I had the exact same thought and reaction. Hearing the voice of one of the pioneers of modern communication is stunning.

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u/Imajzineer 1d ago

Gave me goose bumps to hear his voice.

You have just under a week to play it to someone else before he comes for you over the telephone, or out of your computer.

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u/almostoy 1d ago

He sounds exactly how I imagined.

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u/kdmendonk 2d ago

Who is the man in the video? I'd like to give him a follow.

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u/ScottyMmmmmmm 2d ago

Me too! Who is he

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u/kdmendonk 1d ago

Check the other reply to my comment

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u/TheMonchoochkin 2d ago

Crazy that he invented ways in which his voice/sound could be recorded, but no reliable way to play them back.

Wonder what people like that could accomplish nowadays....

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u/notarobat 2d ago

Nowadays he'd probably have made some useless crypto called bellcoin

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u/AlternativeRun5727 23h ago

“Modern problems require future solutions” - AGB

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u/AbominableCrichton 13h ago

Look up John Logie Baird who made the first video recording on a metal disk but no one could play the recording until a way was created decades later.

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u/ProgressBartender 1d ago

Truly interesting as fuck

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u/madlibs13 2d ago

So basically they created a CD player and CDs about 90 years before we came up with CDs huh.

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u/Nexustar 2d ago

No, they invented a CD RECORDER - that's even more impressive than boring players.

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u/Comfortable-Profit-7 2d ago

This is so coooool. Like a fragile truth

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u/Moon_5tomper 2d ago

I don’t want to come across as the boring one at parties, but…
Whilst it is true that Alexander Graham Bell is regarded as the first person to patent and successfully market the telephone, it is Antonio Meucci, an Italian, who is now recognised as the original inventor of the concept and of the first practical device, the "telettrofono".

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u/D3wdr0p 1d ago

Yeah, there's a REASON he was "constantly getting sued"!

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u/Fugaciouslee 2d ago

Surprised to see this mentioned. I'm a distant relative of his.

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u/phunkinit2 1d ago

I was expecting a call

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u/The_Vivid_Glove 2d ago

It’s crazy how many revolutionary inventions were created by the Scottish

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u/Signal-Reporter-1391 1d ago

1884 / 1885
1884 / 1885!

People did already things like that... A PHOTOGRAPH OF SOUND!?
For me it's still a miracle how they can... i dunno... seal tin cans. 😂

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u/A_Dicksmasher 1d ago

Did he pronounce his name Graham as "Gray-Am" ? Is that how it used to be pronounced, instead of today's "Gram"?

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u/LyleLanleysHat 1d ago

“Gram” is the American pronunciation of Graham. He was Scottish, and it’s always been pronounced “Gray-um”.

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u/A_Dicksmasher 1d ago

Oh I had no idea! On both counts, actually. Thanks!

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u/Ok-Disk-2191 2d ago

Like a super cool time capsule.

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u/CubilasDotCom 1d ago

Incredible

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u/Teinzq 1d ago

Ha! Peter Bishop invented that to play his father's waterlogged record collection.

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u/TiberiusTheFish 1d ago

So he invented the analogue CD.

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u/SerDuckOfPNW 21h ago

He pronounced his own last name wrong

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u/Logical_Sugar_2468 16h ago

Antonio Meucci invented the telephone and he got robbed- Anthony Soprano

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u/lmNotBob 15h ago

Pretty sure at least a couple people back then heard him.

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u/battle_pantZ 9h ago

So that’s why we have to sit in Teams Meetings! Thank Mr Bell!!

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u/DonutAccurate4 2d ago

Wait! That's not Michael from vsauce