Reply To: Recharge Magnets on Fly Wheel

[wmohat]

Buccaneer:

Nikola Tesla was interested in high frequency, high-voltage transformers. During his lifetime, there WAS NO WAY to directly measure magnetic fields ….saturable reactors, hall-effect devices and other field sensors weren’t developed until many decades later…… (how Maxwell derived his equations in the 1850s is a complete mystery to me!) I don’t think Tesla was directly interested in magnets or magnetic fields, short of the coupling fields used in transformer windings. The people that designed power generation equipment at that time in history – (Edison, Westinghouse, etc)…..those guys were interested in the magnetic strength of the excitation fields in their generators, but they had no way to directly measure it, unless you count a block of steel and a spring scale. It’s amazing how the science pioneers were able to make the discoveries that they did, with the primitive tools of the time.

–wmohat

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Bill Mohat MS/CIS, BSEET, CCNA

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