| The flyback transformer in a CRT based monitor or TV is not a tesla coil, and
its operation is entirely different. His experiments in radio transmission
were entirely misguided, and completely unworkable, which is why his concept is
never used. In picking 60Hz, after the rest of the world (at least the part
which had electricity) had mostly standardised on 50Hz, he had not only picked
the frequency most dangerous to humans, but had also introduced an
incompatability, in true Gates fashion. The only part of his work which was
original, and works, is the induction motor, and even so, some of his patented
designs for these were ridiculous. We had two similarly incompetent, but
greatly revered, idiots in the UK. The fisrt was Brunel, whose bridges mostly
had to be rebuilt after 10 to 20 years, and who introduced a non-standard
railway gauge, with the result that, when the need for standards compliance
became very obvious, the whole lot had to be relaid. The second was Baird, who
is commonly supposed to have invented television, but in fact only retarded
progress by about 20 years, again in true Gates fashion. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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