Hear My Voice: Graphophone with wax recording (cylinder is coated with wax), 1881 @SmithsonianAmHistory
Hear My Voice: Graphophone with wax recording (cylinder is coated with wax), 1881  @SmithsonianAmHistory
Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Speaker: Alexander Melville Bell, father of Alexander Graham Bell

Content: “[trilled r sounds] There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in our philosophy [trilled r sound]. I am a graphophone, and my mother was a phonograph.”
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Hear My Voice: Graphophone with wax recording (cylinder is coated with wax), 1881

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