Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor who pioneered the compact disc and invented the cassette tape — the medium of choice for millions of homemade mix tapes — has died at a care facility in the ...

Lou Ottens unveiled the first compact cassette tape, built by his Philips design team, in 1963. Billions of cassettes were sold before he spearheaded a team that introduced the compact disc with ...

Lou Ottens was fiddling with a reel-to-reel tape recorder one night in the early 1960s, trying to thread a wafer-thin piece of magnetic tape through mechanical guides so that he could listen to ...

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 ...

Lou Ottens, the Dutch engineer who invented the audio cassette tape, breathed his last on March 6 in Duizel, the Netherlands. He was 94 years old. Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad first reported ...

First, we have a debate that you can settle by simply stating who invented the CD. Second, while looking closely at some of our compact discs, I see slight variations in the common CD logo. These ...