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Bose founded his company, based in Framingham, Mass., in 1964. The company's products include sleek Wave system radios with "lifelike, room-filling sound," home theater accessories, computer speakers and cushioned QuietComfort headphones for reducing background noise such as airplane engines.

He enrolled at MIT, where he received his bachelor's degree, master's degree and doctorate, all in electrical engineering.

Dissatisfied with the sound quality emitted by music speakers in the 1950s, Bose started a research program in physical acoustics and psychoacoustics. His work led to the development of patents in acoustics, electronics, nonlinear systems and communication theory.

Bose received many awards and honors.

In 2011, Bose gave MIT the majority of Bose Corp. stock in the form of non-voting shares whose dividends support education and research. 

Bose declared in a 1993 interview with the Sunday Times of London that he had no interest in material wealth.

"Company directors who pay themselves dividends get enjoyment out of the money, but I wouldn't have that," he said. "It's not that I'm a good person. I am just doing what I enjoy the most. I don't want a second house, I have one car, and that's enough. These things don't give me pleasure, but thinking about great little ideas gives me real pleasure."