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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Former Sony Corporation president Norio Ohga, the man widely attributed for pushing Sony into a new generation that led to the standardization of the Compact Disc format, passed away on Saturday ...

Lemelson sought out Gerald Hosier, a maverick attorney who was quickly becoming a legend in the insulated world of patent law. Lemelson had been awarded a patent in 1962 (No. 3,016,845) for a toy ...

Trying to prove the real inventor of the March Madness pool seems about as implausible as picking a perfect bracket. Staten Island pub Jody’s Club Forest says it was the ...

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 ...

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 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 ...