Farewell to Lou Ottens, the dad of the cassettes

(ANSA) - ROME, MARCH 10 - Thanks to him, music has become more democratic and within everyone's reach and above all it has come out of the houses being able to be transported in a magical plastic "box" that could fit into a jacket pocket. The Dutch engineer Lou Ottens, a revolutionary inventor in the 1960s of cassette tapes of which more than 100 billion copies have been sold in recent years, died at the age of 94. According to Dutch media reporting the news, Ottens died in his Duizel home on Saturday. Later as technical director of Philips in the late 1970s, Ottens also took part in the development of the compact disc. (HANDLE).