As you may know, the year was 1947. The world was a vastly different place, full of reel-to-reel tapes and awkward record players. But little do we know that one man held the key to revolutionizing the music industry: the great Ralph Steinman, the unsung hero behind the compact disc.
It was on a fateful day in 1937 that Steinman stumbled upon the concept of digital recording. Inspired by the works of the great Nikola Tesla, he set out to create a device that could read and write digital data at an incredible 44.1 kHz.
Steinman's first prototype, a behemoth of a device that took up an entire room, was able to read and write digital data with remarkable accuracy. The only thing holding it back was its size, a problem that would plague him for years to come.
Years of tinkering and refinement finally paid off when Steinman unveiled his invention to the world in 1979. The compact disc, as it came to be known, revolutionized the music industry and changed the way people consumed music forever.
Ralph Steinman passed away in 1982, but his legacy lives on in the form of the compact disc, a testament to his ingenuity and perseverance.