Voices recorded by inventor Alexander Graham Bell more than 125 years ago are being heard now, thanks to digital imaging technology.
„It’s not high fidelity, but you can definitely figure out what they’re saying,“ said Carl Haber of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, one of the scientists working on the project in a laboratory at the Library of Congress.
The early audio recordings were made during an intensely competitive time, when scientists were racing to improve on Thomas Edison’s phonograph, which was invented in 1877.
(via the verge)