That was years later - I worked on the micro television in 1973, IIRC, at St Ives mill. Or brothel as it was widely known
Part of my brief was to design the EHT for the tiny and dreadful CRTs he was trying to build. Using a cheap and tiny piece of ferrite. I bashed my head over air gaps and winding densities and then went back to basics of electromagnetic theory to find a simple way of expressing the problem
And in the end it is indeed extraordinarily simple. You can store a fixed amount of magnetic energy in a given volume of ferrite. Multiply that by the operating frequency (fixed at line scan) and that is simply as much power transfer as you will *ever* get through that ferrite at that frequency.
Better tubes or bigger ferrites was the solution. Nneither was acceptable to Clivce so I spent a few months demoted to the service department full of randy Fen girls, and broken pocket calculators - around a containerful - before leaving to hitch hike round the USA...
The first, but by no means the last criminal to get knighted I have personally known. Of course one other notable knight that I didn't myself personally know was Branson.
Who made his first money by conning students into selling records direct to fellow students at a discount, for nothing, on the promise that they would all receive shares in his company.
No one got anything.
Except him.