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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.”
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.”




![Hear My Voice: Sound recording, glass disc with photographic emulsion, made March 11, 1885
“. . . and H. G. Rogers. It’s the eleventh day of March, 1885 [trilled r sound]. Who pushed in the pipe? Mary had a little lamb and its fleece was white as snow . . . . Everywhere that Mary went . . . [startled noise] [tone]. Mary had a little lamb and its fleece was white as snow. Everywhere that Mary went, the little lamb was sure to go. How is this for high? . . .” Hear My Voice: Sound recording, glass disc with photographic emulsion, made March 11, 1885](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QTlNDnTJIfA/mqdefault.jpg)





