The tape had to be manually pulled through the magnetic head, and the procedure was not easy. That is, they recorded and reproduced sound using a magnetic tape wound on a reel. However, all tape recorders of that time were of the reel-to-reel type.
#OTTENS CASSETTE TAPE HAS PORTABLE#
In eight years, he became the head of product development, and in a year, the first portable tape recorder, the EL 3585, was created. After receiving his degree, he began working at Philips in 1952. Lou Ottens even managed to make an antenna that could cope with German interference.Īfter the war, Ottens studied mechanical engineering at the Delft University of Technology, and at the same time, he began working at an X-ray technology factory. This London channel broadcast speeches by Dutch political leaders in exile, such as Queen Wilhelmina. As a teenager, he assembled a receiver with which he listened to the underground “Orange Radio” programs during the Second World War. Lodewijk Frederik Ottens was fond of technology since childhood he constantly invented something. He cared little about fame, but he knew exactly what he was working for.
I haven’t done anything special,” the engineer said. “I can be credited for the idea and a number of ideas in it, but the draftsmen, the electrical designers, and the industrial designer, they have done the work. Ottens always emphasized that his inventions were a result of teamwork. This applied to tape recorders, audio cassettes, and then CDs. Ottens has always set himself to make his inventions easier, smaller, cheaper, and more accessible to everyone. So if it were not for Philips engineer Lou Ottens, the history of the Rolling Stones and the entire musical history could have followed a completely different path, probably more thorny. That’s how ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’ became The Rolling Stones number one record.Īll this happened in 1965, literally two years after Philips presented the first audio cassette and portable tape recorder at an exhibition in Berlin. But he was outvoted by the band, and the song was released. Richards didn’t think the song was commercial enough for a single. Eventually, he gave the tape to Mick Jagger and asked him to write the words.
He didn’t remember writing the chords, but he must have woken up from a dream and recorded it. At first, Keith heard only snoring on the recording and then two minutes of an interesting guitar riff. One morning, Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards noticed that the new cassette tape he had put in the Phillips recorder he always kept beside his bed had run out to the end.
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