RIP Lou Ottens, Dutch inventor of the compact cassette tape

[triplexxx]

Lou Ottens (born Lodewijk Frederik Ottens) engineer who worked for the PHILIPS company in Belgium as head of product development in charge of teams who created the first compact cassette tape, before that the first portable tape recorder, and later the CD, has passed to heaven at 94.

[Papenbrook]

He and his team helped invent a device that has gone on to aid so many people.

I hope he will be able to rest well.

[Shark_Blade]

I remember owning like 2 cassette tapes. His contribution changed the world.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

His contribution changed the world.

Absolutely. And scared many record companies between circa 1975–1995, when many people home-taped from radio instead of buying grammophone records.