![]() ![]() Guests from Japan were inspired by his invention. In 1963, the development of the cassette and the playback device had done so well that they were presented at the Internationale Funkausstellung – a trade exhibition for audio products – in Berlin. Remarkably, his wooden prototype was later lost when used to prop up his jack while changing a flat tire, Philips added. Woman reunited with mixtape more than 20 years after she lost it The tape washed up on the beach at Playa de Barlovento de Jandía, Fuerteventura Mandy Barker The block became the model after which the first portable cassette recorder was made, said Philips. Ottens cut a block of wood that would fit into the side of his jacket pocket to find an ideal size for the new carrier. ![]() Because of the laborious nature of the reel-to-reel process, Ottens wanted to simplify the process, said his family. ![]() He revolutionized recorders two years later by inventing the compact cassette. At the time, all recorders used the reel-to-reel system, which meant the tape had to be manually wound. In 1960, Ottens and his team developed the first portable tape recorder. ![]() Ottens was described by Olga Coolen, the director of the Philips Museum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, as an “extraordinary man who loved technology.”Īn engineer by trade, five years after joining Philips, Ottens became the head of the company’s product development department at its audio plant in Hasselt, Belgium. Ottens also supervised the team that developed the compact disc (CD). His cause of death was not given.Īn estimated 100 billion cassette tapes have been sold worldwide, according to Philips, the company he began working for in 1952. They said the inventor died at his home in Duizel, the Netherlands, on Saturday. I'd built it into a little plastic box, so without any heat sink that transistor ran pretty hot! I had to remind passengers not to touch it.Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor of the cassette tape, has died at the age of 94, his family has confirmed to CNN. It plugged into the cigarette lighter and provided 6V to the cassette player. To save on batteries, this esoteric setup was powered by one of my first DIY electronics projects: a little voltage regulator made mainly from a Zener diode and a 2N3055 pass transistor, probably from a circuit found in Popular Electronics magazine. My tapes contained mostly recordings from the local FM radio station: King Biscuit, the National Lampoon Radio Hour, etc. It actually didn't sound as bad as it.well, sounds. Both pieces just sat in the center of the gigantic bench front seat in the family's Olds F-85 sedan. Several years later at age 16, my first "car stereo" consisted of a Craig portable mono cassette recorder/player, plus a 6" Radio Shack whizzer-cone speaker in a plywood box plugged into the recorder's earphone jack. My little 9-year-old buddies & I thought it was the coolest toy ever, and spent lots of time there making goofy recordings before getting kicked out for having too much fun, heh. I remember seeing the new Compact Cassette portable recorders for the first time - in the Singer sewing machine & small appliance store at the local mall back around 1965 or so. ![]()
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