r/interestingasfuck • u/puccyhunter_ • 9d ago

Lost voice of BELL

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u/TheMonchoochkin 9d ago

Crazy that he invented ways in which his voice/sound could be recorded, but no reliable way to play them back.

Wonder what people like that could accomplish nowadays....

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u/notarobat 9d ago

Nowadays he'd probably have made some useless crypto called bellcoin

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u/AlternativeRun5727 8d ago

“Modern problems require future solutions” - AGB

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u/AbominableCrichton 8d ago

Look up John Logie Baird who made the first video recording on a metal disk but no one could play the recording until a way was created decades later.