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Father of the cassette tape dies at 94 Lou was an extraordinary man who loved technology SAMAA | AFP - Posted: Mar 14, 2021 | Last Updated: 1 month ago SAMAA | AFP Posted: Mar 14, 2021 | Last Updated: 1 month ago
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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.
Created by 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.
Versatile if infuriatingly easy to unspool, more than 100 billion cassette tapes were produced worldwide in their heyday from the 1960s to the 1980s and have even enjoyed a recent retro resurgence.
Engineer Lou Ottens' interest in tech was sparked as a boy when he built a radio with a special antenna that he called the 'Germanenfilter' because it could avoid Nazi jammers
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Inventor of the cassette tape, Lou Ottens, dies at age 94 Share Updated: 6:14 AM MST Mar 12, 2021 Christopher Johnson and Chloe Adams, CNN Jerry Lampen/Associated Press SOURCE: Jerry Lampen/Associated Press
TRACKING THE COVID-19 VACCINE Share Updated: 6:14 AM MST Mar 12, 2021 Christopher Johnson and Chloe Adams, CNN Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor of the cassette tape, has died at the age of 94, his family has confirmed to CNN.They said the inventor died at his home in Duizel, the Netherlands, on Saturday. His cause of death was not given.An estimated 100 billion cassette tapes have been sold worldwide, according to Philips, the company he began working for in 1952. Ottens also supervised the team that developed the compact disc (CD).Ottens was described by Olga Coolen, the director of the Philips Museum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, as an extraordinary man who loved technology. An engineer by trade