Hear Alexander Graham Bell's voice for the first time!

Alexander Graham Bell
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It's as if the man who allowed us to hear anyone's voice from anywhere is speaking from the grave.

Thanks to a recording released Thursday, the world can hear the voice of Alexander Graham Bell, the man who invented the telephone and made it possible to record sound.

Alexander Graham Bell

"Hear my voice. Alexander Graham Bell," he says on a recently unearthed, 128-year recording of his voice released Thursday by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

“Identifying the voice of Alexander Graham Bell — the man who brought us everyone else’s voice—is a major moment in the study of history,” museum director John Gray said in a prepared statement.

People couldn't stop talking about it on social media. Here are 10 of our favorite reactions so far. No, one of them is not, "Can you hear me now?"

@aMed: "Mind blown."

@ETownMickey: "My arms just blew up in geek-bumps."

@ACBurk: "Holy crap, you can hear the guy that invented the telephone."

@blue439: "I listened all the way through."

@scottnga: "Sounds like a Charlie Brown phone call."

@jontitterington: "SCIENCE YOU GUYS!"

@stevensonjef: "I wish we could recover more stuff like this."

@shirleybrady: "A voice his wife never heard…"

@c_sheridan: "Sorry Alexander Graham Bell, but hearing a historic recording of your voice isn't worth installing QuickTime."

@caraelysse: "Ironic that the man who revolutionized communication is only now being heard."

What's your reaction to hearing his voice for the first time?


