Compact Disc

James T. Russell and the Invention of the Compact Disc James Russell was born in Bremerton, Washington in 1931. His first invention, at six years old, was a remote-control battleship with a storage chamber for his lunch. In 1953, he earned his Bachelor of Arts in physics and graduated from Reed College in Portland. Afterwards he went to work as a Physicist in General Electric's nearby labs in Richland, Washington. There he started many experimental instrumentation projects

How the humble Compact Disc works. By Michael Eiser The humble compact disc has served for many generations and is evolving to store more data and provide more uses. In this article we will discuss how a CD is written, stores data and how the data is replayed. To begin with a CD has been made so useful due to capability to secure large amounts of information in such a way that it is usable for many different things. From military storage of data, to simple home entertainment, the common CD is much

The decay of compact discs 1. Introduction Throughout the past recent years, the technologic community has advanced at rapid rates, generating changes in all domains of life. As technology brought more innovation in the lives of the Americans, it often forced out outdated products and replaced them with newer and higher quality items. One product which seems to be headed down this path is represented by the once very popular compact disc. The current project sets out to assess its position within

The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it. (Edgar Bronfman, jr). The music industry is an ever changing and ever growing business, it adapts and changes with culture, economy and technology. For some it is a way of expression

Daniel Leech-Wilkinson music recording originally began in 1877 when Thomas Edison invented the phonograph. Since the phonograph there has been multiple ways of capturing music including the wax cylinder, the gramophone, the vinyl, the cassette, the compact disk, and now digital. The phonograph consisted of a sheet of tinfoil wrapped around a

industry all-the-while compact cassette tapes were being mass-marketed (Kitchener 1991). Not long after, compact disc, CDs, began to gain popularity in the marketplace during the 1990’s (Radic 2017). By 1997, CDs became the major music medium of choice; effectively leading vinyl records to become obsolete ("History of the Compact Disc" 2016). At the time, CDs were vastly superior to Vinyl records due to their quality as well as size. CD, like the name suggests, were compact enough to allow the listener

This is a revised version of MP3. Theoriginal Sucked ass so I took some liberties with it so as not to get an F. This one should be much better...... Mp3: A Boundary or a Bridge? One of the newest, most exciting and innovative ways to get music these days is not in the mall and not at a huge mega-sized electronic store, it's not even by a mail order CD club. It’s the computer. It sits conveniently on a desk and now allows access to every imaginable genre of music, twenty-four hours a day, rain

Good morning students and teachers, today I will be talking to you about the technology and physics behind the Compact disc otherwise known as the CD Everybody knows that the CD is slowly fading out and being replaced by a digital world where files and streams are the main methods of music delivery. But the CD is not yet done. What is a CD? A CD is a thin circular disc comprised of metal and plastic, the CD is about 12cm in diameter and is usually made up of 3 layers, it is capable of storing up

Technology has evolved over the years, especially in the music industry. We went from buying hard copy CDs to developing music streaming services. The music industry changed once Napster was created. It allowed people to easily share Mp3 files from each other's computers. It was a free streaming service that enabled you to download anything you want without having to pay a cent. It made CD sales plummet and hard copy CDs become obsolete. iTunes is intended for the same thing except it was more developed

Comparing Analog and Digital Recording In the present time we are always coming up with better electronics, because that is what we expect. So, in the recording industry we have moved from analog to digital recording. Musicians want the best recording gear to give them the fastest, easiest, and best sounding recordings for their music. Digital recording is the newer way of recording music since analog recording, but is it always better? There are obviously definite positives of digital recording