Attenuation of high frequencies in commercial frequency power trans-mission lines

Claim 1

AN ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION LINE COMPRISING A FIRST LINEAR ELECTRIC CONDUCTOR OF LOW RESISTANCE HAVING A SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORMLY DISTRIBUTED INDUCTANCE OF NORMAL TRANSMISSION LINE MAGNITUDE PER UNIT LENGTH, SAID INDUCTANCE PROVIDING A LOW INDUCTIVE REACTANCE TO CURRENT AT COMMERCIAL POWER FREQUENCIES AND AN APPRECIABLY HIGHER INDUCTIVE REACTANCE TO HIGH FREQUENCY CURRENTS IN THE RADIO FREQUENCY RANGE, A SECOND LINEAR ELECTRIC CONDUCTOR OF RELATIVELY HIGH RESISTANCE CONNECTED IN PARALLEL CIRCUIT RELATION WITH AT LEAST A PORTION OF SAID FIRST CONDUCTOR AND DISPOSED IN SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL LATERALLY SPACED APART PHYSICAL RELATION WITH SAID FIRST CONDUCTOR, SAID SECOND CONDUCTOR HAVING A SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORMLY DISTRIBUTED INDUCTANCE PER UNIT LENGTH SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL TO THAT OF SAID FIRST CONDUCTOR AND HAVING A RESISTANCE OF THE ORDER OF TWICE THE INDUCTIVE REACTANCE AT A CHARACTERISTIC RADIO FREQUENCY OF THAT PORTION OF SAID FIRST CONDUCTOR WITH WHICH THE SECOND CONDUCTOR IS PHYSICALLY AND ELECTRICALLY PARALLELED, SAID FIRST AND SECOND CONDUCTORS DIVIDING POWER FREQUENCY CURRENTS SUBSTANTIALLY INVERSELY IN PROPORTION TO THEIR UNEQUAL RESISTANCES AND DIVIDING HIGH FREQUENCY CURRENTS SUBSTANTIALLY EQUALLY BETWEEN THEM THEREBY MATERIALLY TO ATTENUATE SAID HIGH FREQUENCY CURRENTS BY RESISTANCE LOSS IN SAID SECOND CONDUCTOR.