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THERE is no known recording of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone. Ironic, isn鈥檛 it? But there is a soundtrack from a lost 1914 film in which his assistant, Thomas Watson, describes how Bell transmitted the first electric message to the human ear. It is here among 38 rare recordings from the British Library鈥檚 sound archive. William Kelvin, Ernest Rutherford, Frank Whittle, Francis Crick and Guglielmo Marconi tell their stories in their own words. One of the most dramatic moments is when Malcolm Campbell stops talking for 14.65 seconds to show how long it took him to drive a mile in 1931. You can also hear Arthur Sullivan, half of Gilbert and Sullivan, predicting over dinner that Thomas Edison鈥檚 cylinders would 鈥減ut hideous and bad music on record for ever鈥�.