Who Invented the CD

The compact Disk was originally the brainchild of a brilliant scientist named James Russel. In the 1960’s, Russel worked at the Battelle’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland to devise the optical digital data service technology. He acquired twenty-two patents for various elements of his compact disk. However, it did not gain popularity till much later when Sony and Philips combined task forces to co-produce the Compact disc-digital audio standard. In the year 1979, both […]