Ampex sold the first video tape recorder for $50,000 in 1956. By 1971, Sony began marketing the first at-home VCRs. After Ginsberg’s invention broke, nothing was ever the same for the ...

They said the inventor died at his home in Duizel ... In 1960, Ottens and his team developed the first portable tape recorder. At the time, all recorders used the reel-to-reel system, which ...

He wanted to create a portable tape recorder because he "got annoyed with ... who is writing a book on the history of cassette tapes. (That wooden prototype "was lost when Lou used it to prop ...

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.

“The cassette tape was invented out of irritation about the existing tape recorder, it’s that simple,” Ottens said of his invention, NRC Handelsblad reported. Ottens also spoke about the ...

Stefan Kudelski, inventor of the first portable professional ... Kudelski's first device, a reel-to-reel portable tape recorder called the Nagra I, created in 1951 while he was still a student ...

Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor of the cassette tape ... department when he began work on an alternative for existing tape recorders with their cumbersome large spools of tape.

“The cassette tape was invented out of irritation about the existing tape recorder, it’s that simple,” Ottens was quoted as saying by NRC in one interview. The technology that made the ...

NEW YORK — Stefan Kudelski — inventor of the first professional-quality portable tape recorder, which revolutionized Hollywood moviemaking and vastly expanded the reach of documentarians ...

NEW YORK — Stefan Kudelski — inventor of the first professional-quality portable tape recorder, which revolutionized Hollywood moviemaking and vastly expanded the reach of documentarians ...