His team invented objects that cost hundreds of millions of copies.
Lodewijk Ottens, the man who changed the standards of the music industry on both occasions, passed away on Saturday at the age of 94 in his Duizel home, in the Netherlands, informs the local media.
The Dutch engineer was responsible for the appearance of the cassette case and posteriorly del compact disc. Tras licensed in engineering, Ottens ingresó in Philips af 1952 y ocho años más tarde encabezó un department de desrollel de productos. Next year, his team elaborated the first portable grabadour, of which more than one million units will be sold.
More years later, the invention of the audio cassette means the beginning of the fall of the open cobweb. “I llegó a molestar el bulky and comfortable bobbin system, así de simple “, recorded by Ottens.
The inventor decided that the new format should cover a jacket and create a model to determine the ideal size of the cassette belt. The first plastic case was presented during an electronics holiday in 1963 with the slogan ‘more than a cigarette case’. This innovation was quickly copied by the Japanese in various formats, which will soon have an agreement with Sony about the use of the patent pending by Philips, which is being disclosed in more 100,000 million copies.
The continuous technological career and this is Ottens’ team centered on the digital format. As a result, in 1980 Phillips in Sony developed a way to keep the CD up and running, from which it would sell more than 200,000 million copies.
Ottens, who celebrated his birthday in 1986, always praised the inventions that dieron access to music grabbed thousands of people’s miles by the result of a collective work.
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