Historical Voices of Famous People

Historical voices of famous people
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[@gavinm91]

To actually hear anything from 1859 is crazy even if it was just a random noise

[@agamaz5650]

ikr

[@oceanicstarline1899]

I believe it was a guy singing a French folk song, it’s very distorted so it’s a pretty normal to think it’s just a squeak or something

[@lucasmucas2807]

@@oceanicstarline1899 Its 'Au Clair de la Lune'. As you said, a French folk song. But sung by a woman. It does become clearer if you listen to an updated version of the song first, kinda makes more sense then.

[@isaacbruner65]

@@lucasmucas2807 that wasn't Au Claire de la Lune, I believe that was Scott de Martinville's recording of a few lines from the 1573 Italian play Aminta by Torquato Tasso. And he was also the one who sang Au Claire de la Lune, the slowed down pitch corrected version confirms this.

[@wigwagstudios2474]

2019: Hello People 1860: BOOROBEVNJFDMGJLKDIO0SKDHO0KNTFYO9IJFBKOLPGYHIUKOYTBDFRBILGKOPHTYJOIPYFTOPKLNBIKOJGYHFTOP;0-LYBRIOU0HP;G6TUOLP-Y;NKIU

[@Slaus900]

Einstein's voice sounds the way his hair looks

[@alexiv250]

Sexy. Ikr

[@d0wnward_sp1ral]

@@alexiv250 ...wtf?

[@glowing_galaxy]

Lolz he sounds like Scrooge MC duck

[@bwipowr7119]

He is German that’s why he has that accent

[@Blkchevy98]

Exactly as I thought it would be :)

[@katiah.6219]

Einsteins german accent is just too adorable

[@punkrockjoanofarc]

Just listening to him made me actually want to do math lol

[@Yora21]

He also seems to lisp.

[@Johnwicklover1994]

simp

[@scaramouched6485]

@@Johnwicklover1994 bro stop

[@bedstuyrover]

His voice reminds me of Gene Wilder in "Young Frankenstein".

[@dahliaserrato1706]

Isn’t it so cool that these were really recorded by a person we’ll never meet, on equipment we’ll probably never see. And yet their voice is in my living room, reaching me across time. I love it.

[@real_lampcap]

I love that

[@raisa_cherry33]

Omg yeah

[@zenon459]

I love historical recordings

[@orionsuniversepart2932]

Holy grammarphone! Tune my phonograph! Scan my phonautograph! You are so right! We are literally listening to ghosts - ghosts in a sense that we are listening to figures that have deceased a long time ago!

[@OmegaRugaI]

When you find out that people had better mics in 1932 than in 2019 Counter Strike

[@shellingford9983]

True

[@xXxAmyBarkerxXx]

lmao true

[@MacIntoshMann]

yeah, that yeats recording was very clear

[@ProfessorSlump]

halt die klappe

[@LennOsu]

csgo compresses the audio file for faster comunication, everybody's mic is fucked

[@johngucci6182]

albert einsteins voice is so cute im crying

[@panspermiahunter7597]

Wow that is off the wall, no comment on the invention or the fact it is a fantastic thing to hear such a geniuses actual voice but " So cute I am crying " I assume you are female?

[@koreancactustv7684]

@@panspermiahunter7597 Did you just assume its gender? XD

[@yahyagannour8486]

@@koreancactustv7684 Whoosh that meme is dead

[@LilRotte3]

@@yahyagannour8486 it is relevant to the situation.

[@yahyagannour8486]

@@LilRotte3 it's relevant to THESE NUTS got em

[@benWTL]

2:07 the fact you can hear him say 'hello' is surreal

[@devilsorchard1449]

He actually says: "I believe..."

[@entasy4096]

Lol nope

[@madpix7218]

@@devilsorchard1449 I dont hear the i

[@TheRealTorG]

@@madpix7218 "I believe that with God's help"

[@Black.Sabbath]

​@@devilsorchard1449 Huh

[@bychen5011]

Albert Einstein sounds exactly like how I expected him to sound

[@AS42100]

Ikr

[@valdezmaury467]

Fun fact: That train video in the intro was actually one of the first "movies" and actually scared the audience members who saw it in theaters. They literally thought a train was going to crash through the walls of the theater. Crazy how times change

[@juubilo1509]

@fjf sjdnx I mean I didn't, i think I quality as a person

[@Bsknten]

fjf sjdnx they may know the story but maybe not that it was the actual video

[@unluckychucky3979]

Wow we were dumb.

[@cardiffwilly]

I think the story is apocryphal. I just read an article that says there is no record of how audiences reacted to the premiere of the film, and this urban legend cropped up in the 1900s as a way to illustrate how cinema could negatively affect the uneducated masses. Sorry to be a party pooper. It's an awesome fact regardless of whether or not it's true.

[@alirezareihaniseidabadi6975]

Yeah Yeah that is true and think that when the poeple over 100 years later look at our today life they mock us with our old and crazy devices..

[@amyntut]

" I hear dead people."

[@daveiskilla1584]

Yes

[@magefreebirds2023]

is creepy xd

[@mamudere67]

Nice

[@polmarkova]

Each of us will join them if transhumanism doesn't succeed in the future...

[@krishellenberg5715]

This comment and replies is scaring me...

[@onionbowie3194]

2:07 the “heello”

[@diddlyfiddle4405]

He actually said “I believe”

[@Greyishly]

Hello!

[@terra_the_nightingale135]

@@diddlyfiddle4405 aww but I like the cute lil “hello!”

[@evildwagon7118]

After the "Hello" it sounds as of he's speaking Simlish :D

[@2468Iftikar]

He actually said "I believe"

[@umjode]

Time stamps 0:16 -mark twain 0:46 -marie curie 0:59 - william ewart gladstone 1:58 - benjamin harrisom 2:24 - william butler 3:32 - Grover cleveland 4:17 - albert einstein 4:45 - Walt whitman 5:50 - queen Victoria 6: 08 - pope leo xiii 6:51 - florence nightingale 7:33 - Alexander graham bell 7:44 - thomas eidison 8: 05 - édouard- léon scott de martinville

[@hoeteadotjpg]

*thanks for the time stamps*

[@pixel2100]

6:08, 8:05

[@chriscoppa7380]

you forgot the bee at 8:05

[@thomassmiththekingbee]

Thank you very much!

[@baldpusheen]

where is ernest henry shackleton

[@alfonzo9389]

I can't believe people actually talked in the 1800s. I thought everyone just used exaggerated mouth and facial movements to communicate

[@jamesagwe2981]

Please animate this

[@fluffypuppers8515]

AL Fonzo What? 😂

[@OneandonlyRosvo]

Smh

[@ameliepare6062]

haha

[@niaavhs]

LOLLLLLLLL WHAT

[@timmedietomfonteyneuu3175]

My phone is stuck on 2% for 15 minutes, it's 3:13 am and I'm listening to dead people

[@WailordAttack]

Should I call a priest?

[@turboflamez161]

I've been there lol. We're a funny old species eh?

[@n8v35]

Sounds like what a dead person would say

[@andylutz3505]

@@WailordAttack no just call Pope Leo XIII! 6:07

[@aaronjones7260]

Omg dying 😂 legend, my excuse is I'm baked

[@daveiskilla1584]

8:05 When he said "fftftftftffrtftfrt", i felt that ✋😩

[@rinharter7758]

Overused

[@oceanneko9483]

Its mosquito man

[@lynx494]

i can almost smell it😛

[@masenschipperandshowsshows7191]

8:15 All I can hear is, “Immediately”

[@Halzabalza]

😂😂😂

[@stefanandrejevic2570]

8:07 he has such a way with words...

[@AFN.90210]

Such a romantic

[@spiriiskate]

Ok but why does Albert Einstein sound exactly like I thought he would Edit : omg tysm for 7k likes i didn't expect my comment to get this many hahaha

[@KilaMaySESH]

I litteraly telling myself the same thing

[@tmaacattack]

CɾყႦαႦყ ღ i was telling myself that too

[@duffyanna4876]

Me too lol

[@carlosesparzavazquez4753]

Ayooo same lol

[@GT-wj3gl]

Probably because impersonations of him were mimicking what he actually sounded like.

[@rafa_maia]

It's insane to think that these people were talking without having any idea that people 130 years in the future would be hearing them on a platform called "KZbin" through something called "internet".

[@BK-eg9vn]

This just tookt head to next level

[@donnacherry1306]

Rafa Maia and it’s kinda weird that in about 200 years in the future people are gonna hear Michael Jackson’s or Donald trumps voice for the first time, it’s crazy to think about

[@theblubus]

On some sort of automated calculating "thinking" box called a computer

[@asmrcraft2117]

At 3:00 am

[@rxw5520]

Y'all silly

[@rizzo_grt]

4:40 That transition from the very peculiar voice of Einstein talking about science and communication to spinning manly man with a confident smile saying with his deep voice "A M E R I C A" killed me on the spot

[@SquooshyShark1000]

you're so correct lmfao

[@joeybaseball7352]

8:05 he's most famous for being Charlie Brown's teacher.

[@terrortiset6669]

*bee*

[@matthewgonzalez2040]

Ew

[@Pika-Chu64]

@@matthewgonzalez2040 beew 🐝

[@itcantbewizardcat7529]

the fly made history it gives me tears 😭😭😭

[@jennymk01]

These comments are killing me 😂

[@doodletime9041]

It's so crazy to hear a voice from 1888! That's 131 years ago!

[@doodletime9041]

@HiWetcam if you remind me to ;)

[@MrK-]

@Multorum Unum every 60 seconds a minute passes in africa

[@Dawid-ll5hh]

@@MrK- racist lie!!!

[@NickB-md1oy]

Ok!

[@viviana8750]

@@Dawid-ll5hh its a meme you idiot

[@PaunchyRobot]

4:10 ah yes, my favorite Cleveland quote: "No, my friends thisheanevahevadujdendisinibble"

[@captainoblivious_yt]

To me it sounds like: "No, my friends. This will never be the judgement of this (or his) people"

[@aestheticaltwat]

I also like what Thomas Edison said that one time. “E-*crackle* a-*crackle*, *crackle* -he in- *crackle* -e.”

[@cillshot99]

Nice u got the nibble part at the end

[@deboss1638]

It sounded like some creepy ritual

[@HOLYGAMERPH]

@@captainoblivious_yt cool

[@aspek457]

Albert einstein is a legend but can we also respect how he says ANEEMALS

[@krishellenberg5715]

XD 🅰️🦵👈MALS

[@Sixty4Horses]

5:51 “Britons, relentless for their queen to speak. let me answer, if can be. We’ve all had a wonderful gift to me, that I’ve never forgotten.”

[@jonesvideo80]

Yeah

[@roscob7089]

She actually says “wonderful festival” in reference to her golden jubilee

[@shayZero]

The past was sure full of alot of washing machines in the background

[@Terri_MacKay]

I actually thought i was hearing horses in the background of the Benjamin Harrison recording.

[@SlashDTuck]

I think is due to the sound of the cranking used to record these on the wax cylinders

[@brandonhaygood5286]

Nah they're all standing in front of waterfalls

[@teamtaken1850]

Shay Sway 😂😂

[@thecakeThief]

@@SlashDTuck what you saying, its definitely the washing machines they were so popular back in the day, no idea why they have fallen out of fashion

[@Radosaint]

8:07 Love him or hate him, he is spittin' straight facts

[@waddahali1950]

Fax

[@rng4612]

He's a bee and he's saying that he needs honey for da queen

[@joseaguilera3939]

He is spitting straight farts**

[@joedewitwomey9627]

😂😂😂

[@madaxgaming6405]

He is straight *spittin* facts

[@hedgeisverygaylol]

When an Irish Poet from 1932 has a better mic than you.

[@theoriginaldrdust]

How come 1932 had good mics? AND WHY DID HE SOUND LIKE FATHER GRIGORI FROM HALF LIFE 2

[@RandomPerson-ob1hk]

His was surprisingly clear and he sounded really depressed or sleepy haha

[@nikilthegamer161]

Soo true. Better than my mic.

[@aMerced]

I can't believe that i just listened to Queen Victoria, i've never thought i would ever do that.

[@DiamanteDea]

It’s sad we won’t know what a lot of people sounded like.

[@mikewalker678]

Or what they really smelled like

[@redplague]

Or the consistency of their shit.

[@joshuatraffanstedt2695]

We dont even really know what they look like. Lets be honest, an artists perception of someone isnt always the best.. A good artist, sure, but let's be honest.. Most of those paintings sucked.

[@mecha7419]

Or what their boogers tasted like

[@_yellow]

@@joshuatraffanstedt2695 Especially people we don't have recordings of, only paintings, drawings and pictures. People we have death masks of like Beethoven, Napoleon and President Lincoln. Particularly Napoleon's death mask look very different how he looks in the paintings of him.

[@franklinclinton3680]

Queen Victoria: my voice is muffled William Ewart Gladstone: so is mine Grover Cleveland: yup mine too Edouard-Leon Scott De Martinville: *_bee_*

[@paulhartley1979]

Omg 🤣🤣😂😂

[@usspaceforcethreatsandrese1915]

More like Fart

[@orionrazilov5994]

Bro that was the first-ever recording of a human voice, of course, it's going to sound like shit it’s actually him singing a ten-second part of a French folk song called ”Au Clair de la Lune” (translation: in the Moonlight)

[@franklinclinton3680]

@@orionrazilov5994 it was a joke dude...

[@lynx494]

noooo aahhhaha😭😭😭😂😂

[@thanhla7080]

2:23 his mic quality was cleaner than my Discord group

[@ilcavaliere88]

the voices of people born in early 1800s breathtaking

[@Rockhound6165]

Hearing the voice of Queen Victoria, someone who was born 200 years ago, is amazing.

[@cheesewankmcfart2012]

@@qvsew3569 BORN 200 years ago, she was born in 1819.

[@qvsew3569]

Cheesewank McFart oh that makes sense

[@jonnepoysti7098]

@@qvsew3569 Umm yes

[@qvsew3569]

Smuug umm yes what

[@marama619]

Shane’s Vids learn to read lmfao 😂

[@scarface1499]

To actually hear Gladstone say the year is 1888 is incredible. A time so far back, but the voice remains.

[@neilghosh3821]

Shark Commander would have loved to hear Benjamin distaeli as well.

[@cultureofcritique9735]

The year Jack the Ripper was stalking London.

[@ThrillzTheGreatest]

London, 18th if December, 1888

[@gunnarthefeisty]

It was later.

[@MrDaiseymay]

@@cultureofcritique9735 yep, no other year can immediatlely , cunjure up a slice of History like it.

[@haydenzahn]

8:04 he has such a way with words. Beautiful.

[@klaus_lima]

8:06 My boy spitting some truth right there

[@entasy4096]

@Wilhelm von Preußen hey it still works

[@katelee1434]

Can we all agree that we're watching this instead of sleep at 2am

[@darkhorsed]

Right now while I'm watching this it's 2:37 haha

[@Somnogenesis]

@@darkhorsed 3.36 here!

[@smaucieri07]

Tlknghds_1980 It’s currently 2:32am and here I am....on KZbin 😝

[@kokabmasood5925]

it's 1:48.....

[@shawnpayne1975]

It’s 2:20

[@mariamatedei]

Time stamps: 0:15 Mark Twain 0:46 Marie Curie 0:58 William E Gladstone 1:57 Benjamin Harrison 2:22 William Butler Yeats 3:30 Grover Cleveland 4:15 Albert Einstein 4:40 Walt Whitman 5:17 Ernest Henry Shackleton 5:51 Queen Victoria 6:07 Pope Leo XIII 6:50 Florence Nightingale 7:32 Alexander Graham Bell 7:43 Thomas Edison 8:04 Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville

[@bigchungus5058]

Julieta Avilés thank you so much

[@heiroot]

Shackleton was handsome

[@cillshot99]

Leo is singing

[@Ratigan2]

this comment should be pinned so everyone can see

[@loaded2.021]

Thank u😊

[@mikhailjoshuapahuyo1431]

Queen Victoria: I have never forgotten Me: Yes, you are never forgotten

[@mikhailjoshuapahuyo1431]

@Wilhelm von Preuben lol, I never noticed that

[@mikhailjoshuapahuyo1431]

@Wilhelm von Preuben is that a fart?

[@mikhailjoshuapahuyo1431]

@Wilhelm von Preuben 😭lol

[@wagnertwenty-seven1798]

nobody: me tryin to learn trumpet : 8:05

[@astre1515]

Lool

[@clayton6004]

😂👍

[@flamebird2218]

It's a shame that no recordings of Tesla have survived.

[@redplague]

He sounded like David Bowie.

[@ahuman291]

Rip nikola tesla ;(

[@falouerba7730]

redplague whos david bowie

[@monarch2131]

@@falouerba7730 singer

[@lukapiscenec3348]

Da😕

[@legalizeraccoons]

Thomas Edison sounds like he’s stuck in a storm and laughing about something

[@Yumiesthetic]

aaaahahahaha xd

[@blackman5867]

@@Yumiesthetic thats not funny you know

[@Yumiesthetic]

@@blackman5867 ?

[@blackman5867]

@@Yumiesthetic that is creepy

[@Yumiesthetic]

@@blackman5867 lol whatever

[@nightmarishcompositions4536]

I feel like Yeats is about to strike me down with a powerful magic spell.

[@entasy4096]

He's gonna yeat you on the floor

[@autumnpalmer8654]

Albert Einstein’s voice is so CUTE i’m sobbing it’s 3:30am

[@chakibkm3081]

bruuh

[@2muchz]

When he said Shshjdjsjdjfjf. I felt that

[@nursmalik6024]

These words are really deep

[@ophelia5844]

Don’t subscribe to my channel , bro that hit my heart harder than i anticipated

[@-xnnybimb2-792]

Especially coming from the poets. Deep as hell

[@abm8017]

The last one sounds like a fly that had access to a mic

[@Yumiesthetic]

ajahahaha

[@rng4612]

Or a bee saying that he needs more honey for the queen

[@fredoriagaming4466]

This comment has 667 likes.

[@mahdialabdulsalam9590]

Hearing the voices of these historic people such as Queen Victoria and Florence Nightingale is like a time machine. Awesome!!!

[@real_lampcap]

It's so interesting to see how speech and accents have changed over the years.

[@raisa_cherry33]

This could be a great research topic 😮

[@rs5570]

Note that the "recording" of Mark Twain says that it was a neighbor of Twain's doing an impression of him. Not actually him.

[@bumblebot2458]

It's still impressive that we can get an *idea* of what his voice sounded like though.

[@pgh45rpms]

Mark Twain died in 1910. The recording was made in 1934?

[@RawOne911]

Yeah I said that. Should say it is. That's deceptive.

[@shannons7196]

I heard that Twain/Clemens tried recording his actual voice a few times, but didn't like how it sounded. The neighbor at least sounded fairly true instead of the cartoonish southern accent too many actors have used in portraying him in film/ tv.

[@andrewdoe8645]

Thanks I can't read so this comment really helped out alot.

[@josef596]

I can’t believe I’ve just listened to Queen Victoria.

[@mollywelford1562]

Josef lmao same I’ve learned alllll about her and this is the first time I’ve ever heard her voice💀

[@adriankwok1406]

she really needs a better mic

[@mrkronk8986]

Just let that sink in you listened to a woman born 200 years ago

[@skylerisbesty5712]

@@mrkronk8986 your listening to ghosts

[@janvandenbrink132]

It sounds like my parents room

[@maxpower252]

Marie Curie’s voice sounds a little radioactive ☢️

[@krishellenberg5715]

She used to do stuff with radioactive materials, that’s why.

[@krishellenberg5715]

I think.

[@jp17818]

She's irish

[@oliverthestreamhopper2927]

@@jp17818 *polish

[@Robbnlinzi]

I think there was a lot of decay in the track

[@NimueRavy]

Edouard-Léon scott de Martinville was actually the invertor of the phonograph, so 8:05 is actually one of the first recording he did, without him we wouldn't have ever heard any of the other voices

[@autumnrryan8553]

Wow. I was excited to hear Queen Victoria's voice. I didn't know a voice recording of her existed. I wish there was voice recording when Lincoln was President. I would like to hear his voice.

[@johnfrank443]

It barely does exist does it ?

[@fridericusrex7042]

Eazhil Rajendran just say medium

[@davidmartin6474]

You might be disappointed. Lincoln had a country accent and contemporaries described his voice as soft, almost "girlish" when speaking normally and when giving speech Lincoln could be shrill.

[@iVenge]

Powerdriller Power a lang

[@blank-ux2ru]

Autumn R Ryan there is a recreation of the Gettysburg speech created by a guy who was there

[@pixelchick95]

William Yeats sounds like he's chanting a really long spell

[@eyeless4861]

Ingrid Vazquez he does

[@pxter]

the unnecessary rolling of his 'r's😂

[@granolaxo]

Peter Kehoe he’s an I R I S H *poet* that’s how they speak and especially he’s reading a dramatic piece

[@ebenezermacanerney2579]

I thought he was singing White Rabbit.

[@miapopova2315]

He probably was

[@fabulouschild2005]

To hear these old recordings is amazing. It is like a bit od their soul lives on in the recordings

[@user_name_taken_9188]

8:13 yeah we totally can even hear his voice.

[@oribiar8979]

Nobody: Bees in my garden be like: 8:05

[@tasbiha131]

Lmaaao

[@tasbiha131]

Hannah Beeson Green It’s me,Dear

[@diamondoceanstarlightshimm9053]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@chickensandwich1761]

It’s crazy to know that audio was taken in 1859!

[@alejandroperez-yy9ym]

Anonymousss yeah that’s why we can’t hear anything

[@aegontan686]

6:07 I can only think of him grilling sausages while singing

[@niaavhs]

LOL

[@nursmalik6024]

Lmao

[@jokerraton8183]

He's grilling children

[@lynx494]

€HHAAH OMGAOD😭😂

[@marga2094]

Pope Leo XIII singing in Latin language

[@Nutarei]

You can tell William Butler Yeats really cared about poetry. He was really into it haha. He deserves to have his poetry as famous as it is. (Also he is really cute in that pic lol)

[@lukke4841]

8:15 the fly in my ear rn

[@TinLizzie-uc1jw]

Most of these sound like Charlie Brown’s teacher

[@kdotdevelopment6398]

Wah wah wah wah wah wah wah waht did you say

[@yurxxo]

Wahp

[@miele_e_fiele]

😅😅😅😅😅 Especially the last one.

[@mollyr.goates8097]

Love your profile pic. 😀

[@doctorquantum3364]

Einstien is literally pretending to be einstien

[@bingola45]

He's really an impostor, then? Like Paul McCartney?

[@doctorquantum3364]

i was just saying his voice is really steriotypicaly german/ einstien but what do i know????

[@bingola45]

Well, you certainly don't know what 'literally' means!

[@doctorquantum3364]

ummm.... ?

[@nellll2710]

@@doctorquantum3364 well he was german so him having this accent is pretty normal

[@emilkoch4098]

It's amazing to me how formal everyone was way back then. Very gentleman like, lady like. Proper indeed. I had no idea the first audio voice recordings existed in the late 1800's.

[@nathanbeler4874]

8:05 I didn't know it was going to get so bad

[@krishellenberg5715]

It didn’t, he just farted in the audio thing. Just like Flamingo/Albert farts in his mic.

[@krishellenberg5715]

(That’s a joke don’t take it srsly)

[@colonel_koopa]

Reasonable, since it was one of the first recordings ever made

[@TheEmeraldMenOfficial]

This is one of the first recordings in existence and is very badly degraded.

[@britney2642]

no one: charlie brown’s teacher: 8:05

[@SabrinaChach]

I had to laugh about your comment so much, I had tears in my eyes...But you are absolutely right

[@sp1ritual222]

VBBEKDNDN DVDBEN. IM DYINGG SHEJEGEHS

[@violet3002]

i screamed omg

[@forind934]

XD sorta sounds like farting

[@Yumiesthetic]

xDDDD

[@amandascott2705]

Love how the first one is the audio of a neighbour imitating his voice and making fun of him

[@mcloward1]

Little did he know a bunch of fortnite players would do the same to him in 2019

[@greenskullpng]

stoopid person, it says in the corner that his nephew was imitating him smh

[@chinmeat]

“Nabour”

[@Cassxowary]

7oxic neighbour*

[@Cassxowary]

Allah Is gay allah is all sexualities not just gay, he’s everything. And there’s no such thing as retarded, learning and growing are not races, and everyone is on their own path at their own pace, with their own lessons and experiences and everything, so no one can be ahead or behind, as you are proof of.

[@rk.r2439]

Learning about people from the past has made me think of how different we are compared to them. Almost unimaginable and alien-like in a sense...but when I hear these recordings and their booming voices from centuries ago, I can't help but feel that there's no difference between the past and present us at all. They were once alive, on the same ground, looking at the same moon and stars, and living their small share of life that was given to them just as I am. So very human, and not at all the 'alien-like' that I once perceived them to be. It's hard to take in, really.

[@gabriela1490]

It actually blow my mind to hear Florence, part of the little things I understand is "I hope my voice sounds..."

[@olepistolee]

8:10 damn I really felt that

[@redpotter27]

For some reason Florence Nightingale’s voice freaked me out, it sounded like I imagine a ghost would sound, and I guess in a way it is.

[@sobasicallyimbillcooper4543]

Ik

[@user-sp5kc5yx8s]

but her voice is eerily cute

[@colonel_koopa]

Florence was probably trying to protect herself in that phonograph recording, as some smart people of the era, as well as other Crimean war soldiers were treated by the legitimately effective treatment of a Jamaican nurse, whom's ideas Florence nightingale stole without permission.

[@darkduck-qg2so]

@@colonel_koopa WE

[@colonel_koopa]

@@darkduck-qg2so what do you mean?

[@pentaxel3905]

People in those years: *understands* People in 2020: *visible confusion*

[@lindaeasley5606]

All of them sound like spirits trying to communicate from their graves

[@averyjonesgo4074]

KZbin 1870

[@blemba100]

I need to download KZbin 1870

[@YuraOlsen]

Ahhhhhh, golden times for KZbin

[@ThrillzTheGreatest]

KZbin 1859

[@aaronjones7260]

For those of you struggling to decipher what Queen Vic is saying, historians believe she is making reference to her Golden Jubilee, which took place the year before the recording was made, in 1887; 'Britons, restless for their Queen to speak. Let me answer if can be. We all had a wonderful festival, and I have never forgotten' I think the recording cut off part way through her speech cos it doesn't make much sense but she was probably going to say she had never forgotten her people (in reference to her seclusion in the wake of Prince Albert's death, which caused a lot a political and public unrest at the time)

[@thephantomoftheparadise5666]

That's the one I was looking forward to, but it sounds like someone is making a lot of noise in the background.

[@thejoin4687]

@@thephantomoftheparadise5666 Yeah, I was trying to make out the whirring noise in the background, but I couldn't hear with the blooming queen's incessant chatter.

[@TheKimharv]

Thanks. Your comment was so helpful, I don’t think I would ever have figured out what she was saying on my on.

[@smokerings9588]

To hear the voices of great poets reading their own worksjust blows me away!

[@NeTxGrl]

Walt Whitman born in 1819. About as close as you're going to get to what our founding fathers sounded like. It's nice that photography and voice recordings came along. It makes people from history come to life. Everyone born before that we only see painted portraits and whatever they wrote, it's more of a storybook feeling.

[@j.d.philipps288]

Unfortunately, due to the physical limitations of early analogue recordings, we are hearing these legends from the past not quite as they spoke in conversation with their contemporaries but how they had to SHOUT into the phonograph's horn receiver so that the stylus would make an impression into the wax cylinder. Only with the introduction of electric recording and amplification in the late-1920s could the human voice be faithfully reproduced with all its nuances.

[@rehpup]

Yes

[@carowells1607]

Doesnt sound to me like most of them are shouting. They're enunciating carefully.

[@m7md4x4]

Sounds they are yelling, please share links

[@jald910]

I imagine that politicians such as Cleveland and Harrison probably spoke just like this when giving a speech to a crowd without a microphone.

[@anastasiabananastasia]

Thank you 😊

[@MasonEsquivel_]

8:07 when that fly just keeps flying past your ear and you can’t kill it

[@jinx-qb6vp]

lmao i can't 💀

[@zack_4x56]

💀💀💀💀💀

[@Pika-Chu64]

💀

[@jimjoh4627]

💀💀💀

[@masl3noki814]

💀💀

[@vanillaicecreamcheesefries]

I really like old recordings and I find them calming, I feel like I'm in my grandparents home whenever I listen to them, strangely nostalgic

[@kingjames2076]

Albert Einstein sounds so relaxing wish there was more

[@jomersontan7332]

Albert Einstein's voice gave me +150 IQ

[@catto1752]

Was expecting you to be here

[@jomersontan7332]

@@catto1752 nice

[@MatthewTheMattam]

He sounds like one of my German professors who is from Germany. Not only scholarly but that distinguished, recognizable German accent.

[@lparthatguy3964]

8:10 The recording makes Martinville sound like a trombone, due to the age of it. That's so creepy

[@klobiforpresident2254]

How do you know he didn't sound like that when alive?

[@cheks_765]

I wonder if they ever thought that their voices will be heard hundreds of years later by millions of people.

[@orion4624]

It's quite the thought, isn't it? People of many different cultures and backgrounds. All of their unique and individual lives, all listening to someone from a century or two ago. I'm sure they thought about it. Shoot the technology we have now would be alien to them.

[@orion4624]

Little did Edouard-Leon Scott know, that a 22 year old Filipino-American, studying Architecture in California, would listen to his voice on a futuristic mobile device.

[@mesau7002]

Thanks for this. Truly amazing.

[@bellarose8511]

It’s like hearing ghosts!

[@Janiiya]

Bystander55 duuuude🤭

[@_Daniel_Plainview]

Hearing people that are just bones and dust nowadays is fascinating in some weird way

[@shanequinn7409]

No it's not

[@hamesladick7217]

BengalinTiikeri no 😐

[@_Daniel_Plainview]

@@hamesladick7217 ok bro

[@ryanroubert2483]

I find very funny very interesting that everyone in the past would give a heroic and majestic tone to its speech, even if someone would describe how they love their trousers there should be a brave tone to it; like an artistic interpretation, i dont know why they enjoyed to sound like this

[@erikeriks]

There are 2 possibilities in my eyes: 1. They didn't sound like this, it's made up by the guy who created this video. 2. They did sound like this but it's the same reason people from the 1900s couldn't hear how old they sounded. In 100 years people will speak different than us too.

[@platyclysm4633]

A lot of it has to do with how people perceived 'proper' speaking at the time. In North America, most public or formal speaking utilized what became known as the Transatlantic accent, while in Britain what we now know as Recieved Pronunciation was the equivalent. They were in fact mostly fabricated ways of speaking for use in public, simply because that's what people had been taught was 'Good English'.

[@653j521]

@@platyclysm4633 Transatlantic was invented to be transmitted the most clearly with early microphones.

[@oongaboonga9481]

You dont want to sound informal in something that would live for centuries, dont you?

[@glowinggold9488]

I noticed that to. Overly dramatic.

[@inesaldazabalruiz2793]

2:23 beautiful!

[@andresnava6414]

0:58 That’s how it sound my best friend’s mic when we play Xbox

[@JuanchiesHD]

Albert Einstein sounds like every college professor

[@tensae4725]

Mark Twain sounds like Bane in the Dark Knight.

[@florjanbrudar692]

@@tensae4725 That wasn't his real voice...

[@Massev6871]

As an Irish man I'm amazed at how monotone and strange Yeats sounds!

[@conorsarsfield7158]

Massev6871 I’m also surprised how English Shackleton sounds

[@chunkchunk223]

I’m surprised how clear the recording is

[@megoryan4692]

Yeats' voice reminds me of Tolkien's a little.

[@user-jc8yw8nl3y]

Yeet

[@faithlesshound5621]

He seems to adopt the sing-song style that some people use when reciting poetry. He probably thought of himself as a Bard.

[@thewenik6876]

Amazing recordings from such a long while in the past of amazing people.

[@jordanmeyers2353]

Wow this is really interesting! Thanks for posting!

[@Chico-kx5iq]

It will be interesting to hear Abraham Lincoln's voice

[@nocturnal7345]

Here ya go: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zom2o62Kd61_a5o

[@josephphilips6187]

Sun of a gun. He said Lincoln’s voice, not JFK’s voice!

[@piggyman-st8iu]

Joseph Philips *cries in James Garfield*

[@kell6702]

I was waiting for Marie Antoinette' voice

[@ericpelletier7721]

Daniel Calderon I would love to hear his voice, especially since it is said his voice was actually quite high-pitched, or shrill, which surprised almost everybody who heard him for the first time back then, given his imposing stature.

[@jobjemimah]

Mark Twain - 0:15 Marie Curie - 0:44 William Ewart Gladstone - 0:58 Benjamin Harrison - 1:56 William Butler Yeats - 2:22 Grover Cleveland - 3:29 Albert Einstein - 4:16 Walt Whitman - 4:41 Ernest Henry Shackleton - 5:23 Queen Victoria - 5:50 Pope Leo XIII - 6:07 Florence Nightingale - 6:52 Alexander Graham Bell - 7:32 Thomas Edison - 7:44 Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville - 8:03

[@sohil1838]

This needs more likes.

[@chobochobus]

You spelt Yeats wrong on W.B Yeats

[@davidrodgersNJ]

Wow. Thanks for this

[@w0ltz250]

i love these types of videos, its really a glimpse into the past.

[@rays7437]

I guess most people didn't read the caption on the Twain part. IT WAS TWAIN'S NEIGHBOR doing an impression of Twain. There is no known voice recording of Mark Twain.

[@kaisaro7827]

Einstein's voice was the only one that didn't hurt to listen too.

[@ryancrucena755]

Cause he knew the science to it ;)

[@florjanbrudar692]

And Yeats

[@SouthernGlitter]

Hearing their voices make them more real to my mind.

[@samanthaconn8974]

Einstein's voice is so stereotypical german it makes me laugh 😂❤