Lou Ottens, inventor of cassette tapes and CDs, dead at 94

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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 at the prestigious Technical University in Delft, he joined Philips in 1952 and was head of the Dutch company's product development department when he began work on an alternative for existing tape

Lou Ottens, the Dutch engineer credited with inventing the audio cassette tape, has died at the age of 94.

Chris Willman Music WriterLou Ottens, an engineer who invited the concept of the cassette tape in the early 1960s and later helped develop compact discs, died Saturday at 94, according to news reports from the Netherlands.Ottens was working for Philips when he company unveiled cassettes at a 1963 radio exhibition in Berlin.

Lou Ottens, the Dutch engineer who invented the cassette tape and helped develop the compact disc decades later, has died. He was 94. Amsterdam-based news outlet NRC Handelsblad confirmed the news but didn’t provide details.

Lou Ottens was a Dutch engineer who invented the cassette tape, one of the most popular music formats of the 1970s, ‘80s, and ‘90s.Ottens was working for Royal Philips in the 1960s, when the primary formats for recordings were vinyl records and reel-to-reel tapes. Both were clunky and not easily portable, though the reel-to-reel had the advantage of being recordable and rerecordable, not just for playback.

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