2026-10-06 Wikipedia - Peek-Frank
Page: "Frank William Peek" [web: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_William_Peek]. A tertiary source; its references are the leads.
Biography as given there: born August 20, 1881, Mokelumne Hill, California; died July 27, 1933, near Gaspe, Quebec; BA Stanford 1905; MS in EE Union College 1911; consulting and research engineer for GE, Pittsfield; in June 1931 Harris J. Ryan and Herbert Hoover offered him the chair of Stanford's Engineering College, which he declined for "the top engineering job at GE" (cites Gillmor, Fred Terman at Stanford, 2004, pp.134-135); elected APS Fellow 1922; ASCE Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize 1923; Franklin Institute Louis E. Levy Medal 1926; married Merle A. Bell 1913; killed when a locomotive struck his car at a grade crossing in 1933, wife injured.
Bibliography listed there (DOIs given on the page), new to the project: - 1911 Law of corona Part I, Proc. AIEE 30(7):1485-1561. - 1912 Part II, Proc. AIEE 31(6):1085-1126. - 1913 "High-voltage engineering", J. Franklin Inst. 176(6):611-643. - 1913 Part III, Proc. AIEE 32(6):1335-1355. - 1914 "The Sphere Gap as a Means of Measuring High Voltage", Trans. AIEE 923-949. - 1914 "Effect of Altitude on the Spark-Over Voltages of Bushings, Leads and Insulators", Trans. AIEE 1721-1730. - 1915 "The Effect of Transient Voltages on Dielectrics", Trans. AIEE 1857-1920. - 1923 "Make-Believe Lightning", Scientific American 129(4):254. - 1924 "Lightning and Other Transients on Transmission Lines", Trans. AIEE 1205-1221. - 1924 "High-voltage phenomena", J. Franklin Inst. 197:1-44. - 1925 "Lightning", J. Franklin Inst. 199(2):141-182. - 1926 "Lightning: a Study of Lightning Rods and Cages, with Special Reference to the Protection of Oil Tanks", Trans. AIEE 1131-1146. - 1927 Part IV "The Mechanism of Corona Formation and Loss", Trans. AIEE 1009-1024. - Book, 1st ed. 1915; 2nd ed. 1920 (3rd ed. 1929 found on archive.org, not listed on Wikipedia). Other references: NYT 28 July 1933 obituary; Popular Science Monthly Aug 1923 "Man Steals Jove's Thunder" (Raymond J. Brown); National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (1967) p.289; Who's Who in Engineering 1922 pp.978-979.