Design, construction and test of an artificial transmission line

A little over a year ago Dr. Steinmetz suggested the construction of an artificial transmission line or “slow-speed conductor” in the Electrical Laboratory at Union College. It was proposed to duplicate or reproduce as nearly as possible the conditions of a high-voltage long-distance transmission line in the laboratory in such a way that the various phenomena connected with a line of this sort might easily be investigated. It was not desired particularly to study the effects of very high voltage but rather to investigate and study the various transient and other phenomena in connection with switching, sudden change of load, etc.