How Napoleon Bonaparte Invented the Compact Disc
Apr 13, 2021
3 minutes
BY KEN C. POHLMANN
You can admit it. You are intrigued. Of course, it can’t be true. But is it purely nonsensical? Is it a “pigs can fly” kind of declaration? Or is there someway, somehow, a grain of truth in it? And if that’s the case, how on earth could you conceivably connect the dots between the Little Corporal and the Compact Disc?
The story begins in 1815. French soldiers needed a way to read documents at night, without a light
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