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DURING the course of experiments on electrostatic focusing with a multi-stage accelerating tube1, and afterwards with a multi-stage X-ray tube, it has been observed that the electron beam acts as if it were a potential divider (not necessarily uniform) connected to the accelerating electrodes.
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WATERTON, F. Effect of the Electron Beam on the Voltage Distribution of a High-Voltage Multi-Stage Electron Accelerator. Nature 161, 563–564 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161563a0
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