Lou Ottens
, the creator of the famous cassette tapes, has died at the age of 98 in the Netherlands, according to a statement.
Ottens
, a Dutch engineer, worked all his life for Philips where he developed the famous cassette.
Lou
Ottens
was the
leader
of the team that began work on the cassette in the early 1960s within the Hasselt company, owned by
Endhoven Philips
.
It was in 1963 when the invention was presented inside at the IFA fair in Berlin and its mass production began in
Germany
.
Two years later its commercialization to the rest of Europe would begin.
In the
United States it was
not until 1969 when the record company
The Mercury Record Company
, owned by Philips itself, ordered a first run of 49 titles in cassette format.
The creation had a turning point when in 1971 a variant that reduced noise with a chrome dioxide tape began to be manufactured
and it became a popular item when the Japanese company
Maxell
released blank tape cassettes
in 1974
.
Ottens
, who from a very young age had shown his skills in the field by building a radio that allowed him to listen to stations during World War II, was also involved in the development of the
compact disc.
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