KVR Audio

Voidoid Surrealist · Post by **Voidoid Surrealist** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 1:46 pm

Or worse yet, one of those calls where you pick up the phone, hear total silence, scream into it for 15 seconds, and then get a recording.

If that happened to Bell as much as it happens to me, he'd would have said something like "f**k this telephone rubbish! I'm inventing a flying carriage instead!". But it didn't happen, and that's why, despite all popular predictions of the future, we still don't have the flying car.

/5:43AM, still haven't slept yet. Posts like this are bound to happen.

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 2:02 pm

From what I've read, it seems Bell wasn't deliberately trying to invent a mass communication network, he was working toward a device to help the deaf to hear. That was his big thing.

Oh, and the reason he needed Watson so quickly? He had just spilled acid from a battery jar on himself.

Or so I've read.

Voidoid: Don't have flying cars, you say? HA! Ha, I say! Look a heah: How to make a Buick fly

Technology marches on!

ew · Post by ew » Sat Mar 12, 2005 2:07 pm

"Alexander, this is your mother. Why haven't you been by to visit?"
ew

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 2:12 pm

Okay, time to end the speculation and set forth the facts. The first words on a telephone were:

TELEPHONE
Mk. I-B
A. G. Bell
PAT. PEND.

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 2:16 pm

... but the 'phone on Watson's end of the wire had a nameplate saying:

TELEPHONE
Mk. 1-C
U. Behringer

;-)

lunarhalo · Post by **lunarhalo** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 2:43 pm

... but the 'phone on Watson's end of the wire had a nameplate saying:

TELEPHONE
Mk. 1-C
U. Behringer

opiadream · Post by **opiadream** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 3:13 pm

Steven West wrote:Seriously - I forgot. Alexander Graham Bell said something like 'Watson, come here quick'?

it was 'Watson,come here quick.I neeeed you.I need you now.You know what I'm talkin bout'

carlos · Post by **carlos** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 3:27 pm

"but cane if be exporfted to vst"

robinson_cursor · Post by **robinson_cursor** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 3:28 pm

I heard a joke about this (first words on telephone) so:

"Here is Graham Bell speaking, I invented the telephone,
please call me back, my tel.no. is (1)..."

donkey tugger · Post by **donkey tugger** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 3:29 pm

"WATSON!11!!! OMG WTF LOL COMA H3R3 QUIK1!!11!!1 OMG WTF I NED U1!!!1!1!!!!1 OMG WTF LOL"

Arglebargle · Post by **Arglebargle** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 3:46 pm

XD @ donkers

MickGael · Post by **MickGael** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 3:55 pm

Question: What was the first words on a telephone?

Answer: "....what are you wearing..."

Steven West · Post by **Steven West** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 3:57 pm

- You guys are too much! A simple trivial question, and 3 pages of jokes and permutations and grammer correction later...

But Tuggers right as well - That simple phrase of Bell's is so historical (supposedly?). What are historians 50 years from now going to note as the 'first text message' on a cel phone... "R-U-Re-C-Ving?"

So atleast good to know I wasn't too far off from my history lessons... Carry on.

Muzik 4 Machines · Post by **Muzik 4 Machines** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 4:09 pm

but did it sounded like a virus when he talked?
if yes i want it ported to VST

Steven West · Post by **Steven West** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 4:17 pm

I think Bells voice was pretty clean to Watson. A good sound to sample is Edisons reciting of Mary Had A Little Lamb. Makes Marilyn Manson sound like Pavorotti!