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| | Amar Bose |
 | | Amar Bose was born and raised in Philadelphia, the son of a political dissident who moved from Calcutta. |
 | | As a teenager, Bose earned money by repairing model trains and then transistors, practical experience which helped when he went on to MIT to study electrical engineering. |
 | | In 1964 he founded the Bose Corporation, which has developed car stereo systems, the Wave radio, as well as noise canceling headsets used by pilots and space-shuttle astronauts. |
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