2026-10-06 World Radio History (worldradiohistory.com) - Peek-Frank
Query: Google site:worldradiohistory.com "F. W. Peek" (first page). Files not opened; snippets and URLs only.
- The Experimenter, Feb 1926: "...lated thus by F. W. Peek, Jr., consulting engineer of the Pittsfield Works of the General Electric Company, in speaking before a joint ..." [web: https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-THe-Experimenter/The-Experimenter-1926-02.pdf]
- Popular Radio, May 1924: "Mr. F. W. Peek, Jr., has calculated what such a line would have to be like. The towers would be 157 feet tall ..." (a very-high-voltage line design) [web: https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Popular-Radio/Popular-Radio-1924-05.pdf]
- Science and Invention, Oct 1929: talk by F. W. Peek, Jr. from station WGY, with a photograph of high-voltage sparks [web: https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Electrical-Experimenter/SI-1929-10.pdf]
- Wireless Engineer, Oct 1932, abstract of a Zeitschrift VDI item (16 July 1932, vol. 76, no. 29, p.714): "A paragraph on Peek's success in generating voltages of 10^7 v, giving 18-metre sparks ..." [web: https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Experimental-Wireless/30s/Wireless-Engineer-1932-10-S-OCR.pdf] (German-language coverage of the 10-million-volt generator).
- Journal of the AIEE, Nov 1926: "Address by F. W. Peek, Jr., at meeting of N.E.L.A., Overhead Systems Committee, February 11, 1926, Kansas City, Missouri" [web: https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-AIEE/Journal-Of-The-AIEE-1926-11.pdf]
- General Electric Review index: an article by F. W. Peek, Jr. on "... Lines", p.900 (volume not identified) [web: worldradiohistory.com GE-Review]
- QST, April 1929: cites data "given in his paper delivered before the New York Electrical Society, October 24, 192?" (year garbled in the OCR snippet) [web: https://www.worldradiohistory.com/QST-1929-04 ...]
- Electronics, Feb 1950 and Westinghouse Engineer, Sept 1951: later engineering literature citing the book (2nd ed. p.28; 3rd ed. 1929) - evidence of continued use.
- Journal of the AIEE (another issue): cites Peek's lightning-rod and cage study.
- An AIEE journal PDF (title page not identified) "Lightning Waves and Laboratory Waves - Coordination of Line Insulation, F. W. PEEK, JR., Fellow, A.I.E.E." (from query 1).
Bearing: Peek's popular lectures and talks (priority 1), contemporary press coverage of the lightning generators (priority 4), and continued use of the formulas (claims 1 and 3). Recheck: open the GE Review index and the AIEE journal PDFs.