The power of natural lightning

The electric energy now produced at Niagara Falls is less than that provided by nature in the thunder storms always in progress throughout the world, is the assertion of F. W. Peek, Jr., consulting engineer of the Pittsfield Works of the General Electric Company, in an address at a joint meeting of the Detroit and Ann Arbor Sections of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers on Tuesday night, May 26, Ann Arbor, Michigan. The talk, “Lightning and Other High-Voltage Phenomena,” described the interesting work of investigation which is being carried on with artificial lightning generators in the Pittsfield laboratory.