Lou Ottens, who is credited with not only inventing the cassette tape but also helping develop the CD, died at his home in the Netherlands village of Duizel this month. He was 94.

In the early 1960s, technology companies like Phillips began experimenting with condensing reel-to-reel tape players and recorders into something that could be carried around and used by a layperson.

Louis Ottens — the Dutch engineer credited with inventing the audio cassette tape — has died at the age of 94. Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad first reported that Ottens died March 6th in ...

Called a cassette, it encases a tape and two tiny reels within a plastic box scarcely bigger than a pack of cigarettes.

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Reel-to-reel tape recorders were very popular just capturing the sounds of what happened at home. In April, 1968, my father traveled with a group to the state firefighters’ convention in Memphis.

Since tapes could often hold an album on each side, you could put, for instance, The Cars' 1978 debut album on one side and follow-up "Candy-O" on the other – or all of a double album such as ...

Lou Ottens, an engineer who invited the concept of the cassette tape in the early 1960s and later helped develop compact discs, died Saturday at 94, according to news reports from the Netherlands.

Cassette tapes have been suffering a slow decline over the past 15 years as first compact discs, and more recently music downloading, took hold. But it is estimated that there are still as many as ...

The problem, though, is that there are still plenty of great pieces of content that are relegated to VHS, film reels, cassette tapes, and records.

Audio cassette tapes, VHS tapes, and many open reel tapes are made of plastic, so all you need to do is test these plastic items against the bin/cart recycling rule for plastic: Are they containers?