Amar Bose last month joined the ranks of Alexander Graham Bell and
Thomas Alva Edison, after the National Inventors Hall of Fame announced
his name as one of the seven living 2008 inductees.
Dr Bose, a former MIT professor of electrical engineering who has
revolutionized the quality and concept of stereo loudspeakers, is only
the second Indian American after Dr Rangaswamy Srinivasan, whose
invention of ultraviolet surgical and dental procedures resulted in what
is known today as LASIK surgery, to be inducted in the Hall of Fame.
The Hall of Fame Foundation has honoured 371 inventors till 2007,
including many posthumously, in recognition of their technological
advances and contributions that make human, social and economic progress
possible.
Besides Bell and Edison, past inductees into the Hall of Fame that was
founded in 1973 by the US Patent and Trademark Office and the National
Council of Intellectual Property Law Associations, include aviation
pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright, and genetic fingerprinting pioneer
Alec Jeffreys.
It noted Dr Bose's pioneering work in acoustics technology at the
company that bears his name. Bose is the founder, chairman and technical
director of the internationally-recognised audio company Bose
Corporation established in 1964.
Dr Bose, son of a political dissident who had immigrated from Kolkata,
was raised just outside Philadelphia and began his career at the age of
13 repairing radios in his basement during the Second World War.
According to MIT's biography of Dr Bose, who is both an alumnus and
former professor of the institution, his passion for technology
continued at MIT, where he earned Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral
degrees in Electrical Engineering. He embarked after his BS on a
personal crusade to invent a stereo loudspeaker that would reproduce, in
a domestic setting, the vivid sound that a member of the audience hears
at a great concert hall.
In 1956, he was asked to join the faculty at MIT, where he taught until
2001. His research at MIT led to the development of new, patented
technologies.
In time he succeeded in achieving this goal inventing the
direct/reflecting speaker system in 1968, one of the first stereo
loudspeakers to utilize the space around them instead of reproducing
sound as if in a vacuum. He has also worldwide fame with customized
sound systems for automobiles and active noise reducing headphones.
The Hall of Fame noted that under his leadership 100 per cent of profits
of the company are reinvested back into the company, enabling
advancements in non-audio areas.
In 2004, after 25 years of research, he introduced a revolutionary
suspension system that combines superior comfort and control in the same
vehicle.
Dr Bose has done extensive work for the armed forces and NASA. He was
named Inventor of the Year in 1987 by the Intellectual Property Owners
Association and holds numerous patents in the fields of acoustics,
electronics, nonlinear systems, and communication theory.
'This year's group of inventors who we're recognizing have discovered
innovations that we truly take for granted as we live our daily lives,'
said Fred Allen, vice president of selection of the National Inventors
Hall of Fame.
'Whether it's through our daily actions at home or through global
systems, these inventors have significantly influenced the quality of
how we live,' he said.
Dr Bose, along with 16, including nine who would be recognized
posthumously, will be inducted at a two-day annual induction ceremony
beginning May 2 in Akron, Ohio.
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