1880s

Sherman, Wash: Tucked amid rolling fields is the well-kept remnant of a town that began to decline shortly after its founding in the 1880s

It's a sunny Monday as I drive out to Sherman, one of Lincoln County's few ghost towns…



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1880s

Digital technology allows Alexander Graham Bell’s 1880s disc recordings to be played again

In 2011, scholars from three institutions—National Museum of American History Curators Carlene Stephens and Shari Stout, Library of Congress Digital Conversion Specialist Peter Alyea and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Scientists Carl Haber and Earl Cornell—came together in a newly designed preservation laboratory at the Library of Congress to recover sound from those recordings made more than 100 years ago.

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