F. Alton Everest

F. Alton Everest (1909–2005) was an American acoustical engineer, a cofounder of the American Scientific Affiliation, and its first president.

He held electrical engineering degrees from Oregon State and Stanford University, where he conducted his early work with such prominent engineers as Lee DeForest (inventor of the triode vacuum tube) and Hewlett Packard founders William Hewlett and David Packard, then taught at Oregon State College at Corvallis from 1936, specialising in radio and television.

During World War II he headed a National Defense Research Committee underwater sound research team.

His book Master Handbook of Acoustics was described by Stereophile magazine as "the best-selling book on the subject of acoustics for more than 20 years."

After his work for the Moody Institute of Science, Everest worked as an acoustical consultant during the 1970s and 1980s.

After the war (from 1945 to 1971), he became the director of production for the Moody Institute of Science (MIS), a Christian evangelical ministry producing science films, described by American Cinematographer as "the biggest little studio in the world" in the 1960s.

He published two books affiliated with the MIS: Dust or Destiny (Moody Press, 1949) and Hidden Treasures (Moody Press, 1951).

Everest grew up a conservative Baptist, reading the works of Harry Rimmer and George McCready Price (although favouring physician Arthur I. Brown as an influence on the relationship between science and religion).

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