07/09/2010 · March 8, 1979- Philips publicly demonstrated a prototype of an optical digital audio disc at a press conference called “Philips Introduce Compact Disc” in Eindhoven, The Netherlands March 13-16, 1979- Technical details of Sony’s digital audio disc were presented during the 62nd AES Convention in Brussels

21/06/2013 · 1969: The idea of a compact disc was born in the mind of Klass Compaan, a Ducth physicist. 1970: A glass disc prototype that was readable by laser was created by Klass Compaan and Pete Kramer at Philips. 1971: Intel produced the microprocessor. 1972: First color prototype of the compact disc produced by Kramer and Compaan.

12/03/2019 · Forty years ago the world got its first glimpse of what would become one of the most important music devices in history - the compact disc (CD). The CD was invented in 1979.

James T. Russell: Inventor of The Compact Disc. James Russell developed the concepts underlying the compact disc (CD) and the digital video disc (DVD), both widely popular technologies that use light to store data. Russell's ideas were somewhat ahead of their time, and Russell has never profited materially from his inventions.

04/01/2021 · The first workable digital compact disc device, the precursor on now-ubiquitous CD/DVDs, was invented in the late 1960s by the American physicist James Russell. In 1953, Russell earned his Bachelor’s degree in physics and graduated from Reed College in Portland.

A Quick History of the Compact Disc: The CD was unveiled to the world in March 1979, and the first compact disc was produced in a factory in Germany after years of development by Philips and Sony. The compact disc project was launched following Philips' failure with its video disc technology in 1978.

The compact disc or CD was introduced in the year 1982. It was originally developed for storing digital audio and digital data. It all started in the year 1979, when Philips and Sony got together to design a new digital audio disc.