This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. "Lou loved technology, when he talked about that his eyes began to twinkle," museum director Coolen said. Sadly, he died last weekend at his home in Duizel. 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. Lou Ottens always remained down-to-earth about the success of the audio cassette tape, one of the inventions he made possible within Philips.
The prototype wooden block never made it to the company's museum. "Everybody could put music in their pocket," Ottens said. Ottens died last Saturday, according to the Dutch news outlet NRC Handelsblad, which lists his age as 94. "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. The cassette tape's success stemmed from its simplicity, Ottens said in an interview published by the Philips Museum. Its popularity waned with the development of the compact disc, an invention Ottens also helped create as supervisor of a development team, Philips said. JERRY LAMPEN via Getty Images 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. 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. 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. Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor of the cassette tape, the medium of choice for millions of bedroom mix tapes, has died. "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."
"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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Make tapes and their players far more portable and easier to use. Born on June 21, 1926, Ottens' teenage years. Ottens died Saturday at age 94, Philips confirmed.Ī 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 recorders with their cumbersome large spools of tape. Lou Ottens, the Dutch engineer credited with inventing the audio cassette tape, has died aged 94. 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.
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