Electron beams | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-19

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode_ray


00:00:55 1 Description
00:03:56 2 History
00:04:25 2.1 Gas discharge tubes
00:06:34 2.2 Cathode rays
00:08:58 2.3 Discovery of the electron
00:10:46 2.4 Vacuum tubes
00:13:12 3 Properties
00:14:29 4 See also



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Cathode rays (electron beam or e-beam) are streams of electrons observed in vacuum tubes. If an evacuated glass tube is equipped with two electrodes and a voltage is applied, glass behind the positive electrode is observed to glow, due to electrons emitted from the cathode (the electrode connected to the negative terminal of the voltage supply).  They were first observed in 1869 by German physicist Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, and were named in 1876 by Eugen Goldstein Kathodenstrahlen, or cathode rays. In 1897, British physicist J. J. Thomson showed that cathode rays were composed of a previously unknown negatively charged particle, which was later named the electron. Cathode ray tubes (CRTs) use a focused beam of electrons deflected by electric or magnetic fields to create the image on a television screen.