Carlene Stephens with Volta Record

Photo: Rich Strauss, Smithsonian
December 14, 2011
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National Museum of American History curator Carlene Stephens examines a glass disc recording containing the audio of a male voice repeating “Mary had a little lamb” twice, made more than 100 years ago in Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Lab.