The inventor of the cassette is no longer
The inventor of the magnetic tape cassette, Dutchman Lou Ottens, died this weekend at the age of 94 in Duizel in the Netherlands, several Dutch media reported on Wednesday, citing the family of the deceased.
Born in 1926, the man joined the Dutch technology group Philips in 1952. He had worked there his entire career. It is notably under his leadership that the electronics giant will build its first portable recorder.
Lou Ottens was appointed head of the Product Development department in Hasselt in 1960. It was as director of Philips Audio that he presented a few years later, in 1963, the successor to the tape recorder: the cassette. The invention will revolutionize access to music. The number of cassettes sold worldwide is estimated at 100 billion.
The Dutchman will also push the development of the compact disc (CD), which will become the standard of several generations in terms of musical support.
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