ABSTRACT
Born in Salt Lake City, Davis spent most of his life in California. In 1938, he founded the Cinema-Engineering company, and after selling it to Aero-Vox sometime later, he went to work for Altec Lansing, heading up their audio-control department. He designed numerous products for the industry, including equalizers, filter sets, loudspeaker systems, audio-console electronics, attenuators, gain sets, and the first mechanical film loudspeaker system. Davis was a member of the Audio Engineering Society, was named a fellow in 1955, and won the society’s Potts award in 1962. In 1967, he was named a fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers.
