Cancelling Noise with Dr. Amar Bose

Problem: How do you cancel out all that distracting sound around you that you don’t want to hear when you’re listening to music?

Solution: Use mathematics formulas to prove the engineering is possible to create noise-cancelling headphones.

In 1978, Amar Bose, CEO and founder of the world-renowned Bose Corporation, was frustrated by the inability to hear good music in a noisy airplane cabin. Then he got curious and wondered if there was a way to separate what one wanted to hear from what one didn’t. And the rest is… well, watch this 3-minute movie.