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Timeline of low-temperature technology
Timeline of low-temperature technology
- 1877 - Raoul Pictet and Louis Paul Cailletet liquefy oxygen
- 1883 - Z.F. Wroblewski condenses experimentally useful quantities of liquid oxygen
- 1892 - James Dewar invents the vacuum-insulated, silver-plated glass Dewar flask
- 1895 - Carl von Linde files for patent protection of his process for liquefaction of atmospheric air or other gases (approved in 1903).
- 1900 - Nikola Tesla recieves patent US685012, "Means for Increasing the Intensity of Electrical Oscillations"
- 1908 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes liquefies helium
- 1911 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity
- 1926 - Willem Hendrik Keesom solidifies helium
- 1937 - Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, John F. Allen, and Don Misener discover superfluidity
- 1951 - H. London invents the principle of the dilution refrigerator
- 1963 - W. Gifford and R. Longsworth invent the pulse tube cooler
- 1986 - Karl Alexander Müller and J. Georg Bednorz discover high-temperature superconductivity
- 1995 - Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman create the first Bose-Einstein condensate, using a dilute gas of Rubidium-87 .
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