Lou Ottens, Who Invented the Cassette in 1960s and Later Helped Develop CDs, Dies at 94

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

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.

WTOP News.A Dutch engineer, Ottens began working for Netherlands-based electronics company Royal Philips in his early 20s. In 1960, after eight years at the company he’d risen to be head of product development, Dutch News reported.Within a year in the role, he and his team had created the world’s first portable tape recorder, an invention which would revolutionize the music industry go on to sell over a million units.

it was revealed that cassette sales more than doubled in the UK in 2020.The British Phonographic Industry estimated that 157,000 tapes were sold in the UK by the end of 2020, despite two national coronavirus lockdowns.