THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor of the cassette tape, the medium of choice for millions of bedroom mix tapes, has died, said Philips, the company where he also helped develop the compact disc. Ottens died Saturday at age 94, Philips confirmed. A structural engineer who trained at the prestigious Technical […]
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.
The final product created in 1962 later turned into a worldwide hit, with more than 100 billion cassettes sold, many to music fans who would record their own compilations direct from the radio.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor of the cassette tape, the medium of choice for millions of bedroom mix tapes, has died, said Philips, the company where he also helped develop the compact disc. Ottens died Saturday at age 94, Philips confirmed. A structural engineer who trained