James Russell is an American inventor .
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| Date of Birth | 1931 |
| Place of Birth | Bremerton , United States |
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| Occupation | inventor |
Born in 1931 in Bremerton, Washington . He received a bachelor's degree in physics from Reed College in Portland in 1953. He joined the nearby General Electric lab in Richland, Washington, where he designed a variety of experimental equipment. Designed and built the first electron-beam welding device [1] .
In 1965, Russell joined the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory of the Battelle Memorial Institute in Richland. There, in 1965, Russell invented the general concept of optical digital recording and playback [1] . The first applications for Russell's patents, 3501586 and 3795902, were filed in 1966 and 1969, respectively [2] [3] .
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- 2 1 2 Inventor of the Week - James T. Russell - The Compact Disc . MIT (December 1999).
- P US Patent 3,501,586 Analog to digital to optical photographic recording and playback system, March 1970.
- P US Patent 3,795,902 Method and apparatus for synchronizing photographic records of digital information, March 1974.