Cabin Interior and Electronics
Science of the sound of silence
The prototype personal stereo was famously developed in 1978 to help Sony founder Masaru Ibuka listen to opera while airborne on business trips.
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The prototype personal stereo was famously developed in 1978 to help Sony founder Masaru Ibuka listen to opera while airborne on business trips.

The same year found another electronics pioneer, Dr. Amar Bose, on another business trip frustrated in his attempt to enjoy airline-supplied audio entertainment by the background noise that is one of air travel’s perennial banes. He started to work out how headphones might be used to reduce the background noise and eventually formed a dedicated research group to explore noise reduction technology.

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