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Father of the cassette tape dies at 94 Created by Lou Ottens while working for electrical giant Philips, cassettes made music truly portable for the first time and allowed a generation of music fans to make mix-tapes of their favourite songs. This file picture shows Dutchman Lodewijk Frederik Ottens, the inventor of the cassette tape, posing during a photo session in Eindhoven, on 23 January 2013. Ottens died at the age of 94 few on 6 March 2021. Picture: Jerry Lampen/AFP
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THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS - Tributes rolled in Friday after Dutch engineer Lou Ottens, credited with inventing the audio cassette tape and helping create the compact disc, died at the age of 94.