(Copyright (c) 2022 The Associated Press. Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor of the cassette tape, the medium of choice for millions of bedroom mix tapes, has died. “Lou loved technology, when he talked about that his eyes began to twinkle,” museum director Coolen said. Ottens used it to prop up his jack when replacing a wheel with a flat tire and left it by the side of a road, Coolen said. The prototype wooden block never made it to the company’s museum. The lifespan of the magnetic tape inside an audio cassette is. Lou Ottens, the Dutch engineer who invented the cassette tape and collaborated on the creation of the CD format, has died at the age of 94.Born on June 21, 1926, Ottens' teenage years coincided w. “Everybody could put music in their pocket,” Ottens said. Cassette Tapes Invented by Lou Ottens and his team at the Dutch company Philips in 1963. At one time, he even contributed to the decline of the cassette era by participating in the development of the CD. “It was a breakthrough because it was foolproof,” he said, adding that players and recorders also could run on batteries, making them very user-friendly and, ultimately, portable. But the person who invented the cassette tape, the Dutch engineer Lou Ottens, was puzzled by the revival in demand for cassette tapes among young people in recent years. A structural engineer who trained at the prestigious Technical University in Delft, he joined Philips.
Ottens died Saturday at age 94, Philips confirmed. The cassette tape’s success stemmed from its simplicity, Ottens said in an interview published by the Philips Museum. 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. Its popularity waned with the development of the compact disc, an invention Ottens also helped create as supervisor of a development team, Philips said. 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. This week’s issue of TIME takes a look at that illustrious historyand how the cassette is still.
“This was how big the first Compact Cassette was to be, making it a lot handier than the bulky tape recorders in use at the time.” Lou Ottens, who has died aged 94, was a Dutch engineer credited with inventing the compact audio cassette, a development said to have democratised music by providing fledgling bands, who. As cassette inventor Lou Ottens, now 87, tells TIME, it was a sensation from day one. “During the development of the cassette tape, in the early 1960s, he had a wooden block made that fit exactly in his coat pocket,” said Olga Coolen, director of the Philips Museum in the southern city of Eindhoven.
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