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One man’s trash can be another man’s treasure, even when the sound quality is garbage.

One man’s trash can be another man’s treasure, even when the sound quality is garbage.

Last modified on Thu 18 Mar 2021 15.30 EDT Lou Ottens, who has died aged 94, invented the audio tape cassette, and thus was instrumental in making music both more portable and more personal for millions of people around the world. The transistor radio had allowed listeners to carry their preferred radio stations around with them, but the advent of the audio cassette provided them with an easy means of recording radio broadcasts or dubbing from LP records into an easily portable format. Ottens h...

Unspooling the magic of Lou Ottens, an unsung hero The inventor of the cassette tape has left the building but the mixtape will not be forgotten Mathures Paul   |     |   Published 15.03.21, 12:22 AM Many readers will remember cassettes with a certain amount of disdain. It almost obliterated th...

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.

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The inventor of the cassette tape, Lou Ottens, has passed away, according to De Telegraaf. He was 94 years old. Ottens started working at Philips in

Lou Ottens, audio engineer with Philips who invented the compact cassette tape – obituary

Lou Ottens death: Inventor of the ‘revolutionary’ cassette tape dies aged 94 Alice Hutton © Provided by The Independent The pioneering Dutch engineer who spear-headed the invention of the “revolutionary” cassette tape and CD that brought music to the masses has died aged 94. Born in The Netherlands in 1926, Lou Ottens started his love affair with technology by building a radio for his family during the Second World War so they could try to listen to broadcasts during t...