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THE importance of the application of high voltages to vacuum tubes is self-evident. Its possibilities in connexion with radioactivity have been emphasised lately by Sir Ernest Rutherford1. For the last two years we have been occupied in developing a laboratory method for the production of high voltages in a form suitable for application to vacuum tubes. Our problem divided itself into two parts: (a) The production of high voltages; (b) their application to vacuum tubes.
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E. Rutherford, NATURE, 120, p. 809; Dec. 3, 1927.
F. W. Peek, jun., Jour. Franklin Inst., 197, p. 1; 1924.
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BREIT, G., TUVE, M. The Production and Application of High Voltages in the Laboratory. Nature 121, 535–536 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121535a0
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