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EAGLE is an experimental pulse generator designed and built at Physics International Company (PI) for research in high-power switching, pulse compression, power flow, magnetic insulation, and dielectric breakdown. EAGLE is a wedge-shaped 1/20th "slice" (module) of ROULETTE, Pi's conceptual design for a 40 to 50 TW, disk-shaped, modular accelerator designed to drive imploded plasma or particle beam loads- EAGLE's nominal design goals were a 100 ns, 2 TW, 2 MV, 1 MA pulse into a resistive load, or a 150 to 200 ns pulse at lower power. EAGLE has a 0.9 MJ Marx generator and four water-dielectric triplate transmission lines with adjustable impedances. The first line is a gas-switched transfer capacitor. Next are two water-switched pulsed compression stages and an output line converging to either a resistive load or a racetrack-shaped water-vacuum interface. We discuss the ROULETTE conceptual design, describe EAGLE, outline planned research on EAGLE, and summarize some of the program's technology developments. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]