Dutch engineer Lodewijk Ottens, who created the CD and tape, has died in the Netherlands.
The inventor died at the age of 94 at his home in North Brabant, Dutch News reports.
Ottens joined Philips in 1952, where he became head of the company’s product development department eight years later. Already in the first year, he and his team presented the world with the first portable tape recorder. The next invention was the film for compact cassettes. Based on his own thoughts about the smaller size of the device, after a while he created a CD.