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It's ShowtimeNovember 10, 2016
The plays and sonnets of William Shakespeare, as the finest examples of the English written word, were also the first recorded sounds ever made. Â The first recording ever made at Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory in Washington DC in 1881 was that of Bell's…
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