How a Music CD works <Tab/>If you could stretch out into a straight line all the data stored on a single compact disc, it would be over 4 miles long. <Tab/>All compact discs and other optical disc players read from the inside of the CD out, just the opposite of a vinyl record. The inner ¾ inch radius region is for clamping, followed by …showed first 75 words of 431 total…

…showed last 75 words of 431 total…amp;lt;Tab/>The CD was invented in the late 1960's by James T. Russell. After years of work, Russell succeeded in inventing the first digital-to-optical recording and playback system, which he patented in 1970. He had found a way to record onto a photosensitive platter in tiny bits of light and dark, each one micron in diameter; a laser read the binary patterns, and a computer converted the data into an electronic signal.