Some leaders of the A. I. E. E.

Frank William Peek, Jr. joined the Institute as an Associate in 1907. He has always taken an active part in Institute affairs and in 1925 was transferred to the grade of Fellow. As Chief Engineer of the Transformer Engineering Department of the General Electric Company at Pittsfield, Mass., and in view of the fact that he is a native of California, (born at Mokelumne Hill and graduated from Leland Stanford University in 1905) it is fitting that he should have made his greatest contributions to science in the discovery or laws relating to corona as applied to transmission lines. It was in California, from the Bay Counties plant equipped with Stanley apparatus, that power was first, in the early nineties, transmitted at 60,000 volts over a distance of 140 miles; more recently 220,000-volt lines were placed in service in California. In truth, Mr. Peek´s first electrical work was done at the Electra plant of the Pacific Gas & Electric Company, California, during college vacations.