Amar Bose passes away: What made the inventor of Bose audio systems an ... - Economic Times

Amar G Bose, founder and chairman of Bose Corp, who died at 83 on Friday at his home in Wayland, Massachusetts, created one of the first and best known global audio systems brands. Talking about the name of the company, Bose had told ET in an interview in 2004 that it wasn't really his decision. "Actually, I didn't name the company. We were trying out various combinations with 'acoustics' and 'electronics' but couldn't register any of them till Professor Lee [YW Lee his mentor and adviser] gave me a few tips. He said the name shouldn't be restrictive, since you never know what you're going to be doing five years later, easy to pronounce in America and short so that the logo didn't hog too much space," he had said at the headquarters of Bose Corp in Framingham, Massachusetts. A graduate student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Bose was associated with the premier tech school through his life. A PhD, professor and then professor emeritus, it was his disappointment with the speakers in a stereo system that he bought as an MIT student that was the trigger for setting up Bose Corp in 1964. And his own innovative research was behind the first sound system from the company. In the same spirit of innovation that kept his company going, Bose himself had been involved with many of the products from his company's stable over the years, including noise-cancelling headphones and audio systems for cars. Tied to His Roots He was the son of an immigrant from Kolkata, Nani Gopal Bose, who had to flee to the US because he had evoked the wrath of the British rulers with his nationalist activities. Bose junior was born and raised in Philadelphia and was passionate about electronics and electrical equipment since his teens. Though he was not a frequent visitor to India, Bose was deeply connected to his Indian roots. "An important lesson that I've learnt from my Indian background is that the fallout of research is not always tangible. In fact, while R&D in a given direction may not even spawn any products it could give birth to other ideas. When I was a Fulbright scholar in India in 1956, I had visited the Ramakrishna Mission in Bangalore, where I learnt a very important lesson in life from one of the swamijis. He asked me if all my ideas came after a long analytical process or as a flash of inspiration. I then realised it was the latter," Bose had told ET. And his love for music, which was the inspiration behind the famous sound systems, encompassed Bengali songs by Rabindranath Tagore. The other passion which he associated with his Indian roots was his love for badminton, a game not very popular in the US. Bose, a winner of the ET Awards for Corporate Excellence in 2003 in the Global Indian of the Year category, was always an entrepreneur with a difference. A scientist and innovator first, he firmly resisted all pressure to go public. Copyright © 2013 Times Internet Limited. All rights reserved. via Technology - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNHmH_IPFA06qumlYFmzYHVim9CeWw&url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/et-cetera/amar-bose-passes-away-what-made-the-inventor-of-bose-audio-systems-an-entrepreneur-with-difference/articleshow/21058940.cms

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