Recordings from 1880 Finally Played.

This is pretty cool A. because apparently there are recorded sounds from the 1880s and B. they haven't been played until just the other day.

Apparently the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, also experimented with recording sound back around the turn of the century. And although it's been sitting in an archive at the Smithsonian without the computer technology to read it for the last hundred + years, we are getting the first inklings of what the discs contain. Mostly they seem to be simple tests. Counting, reciting poems, making noises, even an apparent mistake...but the historical value of the stuff is pretty cool. It comes from a time when inventing was soaring; each of these new discoveries had the potential to change the world. Competing with men like Thomas Edison, Bell made countless recordings trying to create the best medium, hurriedly stashing the records in museums for the eventual hope he would be recognized as the "inventor" of the technology.

The Smithsonian has about 200 of Bell's discs and 400 total early recordings to investigate. After playing about six of the discs, they have a long way to go, though each step brings about something never before heard; a literal voice from the past....check it out below.
http://news.yahoo.com/alexander-graham-bell-recordings-played-1880s-210138693.html