LAUNCHING AN INDUSTRY
Bose is one of the biggest sound companies on the planet, owing the name to Dr Amar Bose, a true pioneer of noise-cancelling equipment. He was an engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the late 1950s and founded the company in 1964. In 1978 he was on a flight from Zurich to Boston when he put on a pair of headphones and everything was drowned out by the engine noise. He got out his notepad, and by the time he landed he already had a rudimentary design for what would become noise-cancelling headphones. It wasn’t until 1989 that the Bose aviation headset was launched. It allowed pilots to hear more clearly over the din of the aircraft. The tech has since gone on to be used by the military, in sport and by the public too.