The Oldest Recorded Voices of History

1.

I Galloped (1888) Robert Browning

00:14

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2.

Description and Playing the Bugle from the Charge of the Light Brigade [unknown]

00:36

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3.

Final Farewell Florence Nightingale

00:39

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4.

A Greeting to the President Henry Morton Stanley

00:51

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5.

First Commercial Message (1890) P.T. Barnum

00:24

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6.

Terrified Bad Music Will Be Made Into Records Arthur Sullivan

00:47

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7.

Speech from Othello (1892) Edwin Booth

00:27

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8.

A Tribute to Edison (1886) General Miles

00:56

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9.

You Shall Not Press Down (1896) William Jennings Bryan

00:42

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10.

A Tribute to the Wonders of Electricity (1898) Garret A Hobart

01:57

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11.

A New Gospel of Wealth (1900) Andrew Carnegie

01:10

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12.

Addressing a Group of Engineers (1908) Thomas Edison

00:31

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13.

A New Way of Working (1908) William Howard Taft

01:00

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14.

Extract from 'Out to Old Aunt Marys' James Whitcomb Riley

00:38

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15.

Describing How He Writes His Stories O. Henry

01:08

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16.

Talking About How He Created Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

01:40

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17.

The First Sherlock Holmes William Gillette

01:45

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18.

Campaign Speech (1912) Theodore Roosevelt

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