Indian-American engineer and inventor, Amar G. Bose, famous for making Bose audio systems died at his home in Wayland, Massachusetts on Friday. He was 83.
Dr Vanu G. Bose, his son confirmed Amar’s death.
It’s his name that is embarked on the speakers for home users, auditoriums and automobiles.
Amar was the founder and chairman of Bose Corporation. Under him Bose Company focused on innovation in acoustic engineering.
Even though Bose speakers are expensive they brought concert-hall-quality audio into the home
In 1968, he introduced the Bose 901 Direct/Reflecting speaker system, which became a best seller for more than 25 years and firmly entrenched Bose, based in Framingham, Massachusetts, as a leader in a highly competitive audio components marketplace.
Other inventions included the popular Bose Wave radio and the Bose noise-canceling headphones.
Amar Gopal Bose was born on Nov 2, 1929, in Philadelphia. His father, Noni Gopal Bose, was a Bengali freedom fighter who was studying physics at Calcutta University when he was arrested and imprisoned for his opposition to British rule in India.
He escaped and fled to the US in 1920, where he married an American schoolteacher.
At age 13, Bose began repairing radio sets for pocket money for repair shops in Philadelphia.
Bose's devotion to research was matched by his passion for teaching. Having earned his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1950s, Bose returned from a Fulbright scholarship at the National Physical Laboratory in New Delhi and joined the MIT faculty in 1956.
Bose and his ex-wife, Prema, had two children, Vanu, now the head of his own company, Vanu Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Maya Bose, who survive him, as does his second wife, Ursula, and one grandchild.
(with inputs from IANS)
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