Phillips electronics has been around as long as electricity has been used, but since then, the company has expanded greatly ...

Keith Richards recalls the effect of portable cassette recording on his music, part of a new tribute to the just-discontinued Walkman by my friend and historian of popular technology Phil Patton ...

Audio Cassette Recorders A huge variety of cassette players and recorders were made over the years, both desktop and portable. On the right, the blue-gray Radio Shack and silver Sony Walkman ...

Dutch engineer and inventor Lou Ottens, best known for inventing the cassette tape, died on March 6. He was 94. Lodewijk Frederik Ottens was born on June 21, 1926, and exhibited an interest in ...

Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor of the cassette tape, the medium of choice for millions of bedroom mix tapes, has died, said Philips the company where he also helped develop the compact disc ...

Lou Ottens, the Dutch engineer credited with inventing the audio cassette tape, has died aged 94. ... In 1982, when Philips showed off a production CD player, Ottens said: ...

It is more or less a portable cassette player that connects with headphones. Since then we have seen huge improvements in portable music technology, with MP3 players coming out in 1997 and ...

The Dutch inventor of the cassette tape, Ottens died March 6, 2021, at the age of 94, according to an announcement issued by the Philips company. (Philips Company Archives via AP) ...