MT26 Abstracts, Timetable and Presentations

Session

Plenary: Timothy Coombs (University of Cambridge)

Thu-Mo-PL5

26 Sept 2019, 08:00

Regency Ballroom

Conveners

Plenary: Timothy Coombs (University of Cambridge)

• Mathias Noe (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

784. Thu-Mo-PL5-01: Advances in Superconducting Rotating Machinery

Tim Coombs (University of Cambridge)

26/09/2019, 08:00

Plenary

In 1973 A.D. Appleton writing in the Journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in London heralded the dawn of a new age of electrical machines with the title “Superconducting Machines – a new era for the electrical power industry. This was written in the very early days of the development of Niobium Titanium and records that the world’s very first superconducting machine was a 37...