The apparatus that first liquefied helium, 10 July 1908

JUL 10 1908

The apparatus that first liquefied helium, 10 July 1908

The installation with which Kamerlingh Onnes liquefied helium for the first time on 10 July 1908 at the Steenschuur laboratory in Leiden. Liquid helium is what made the 1911 superconductivity experiment possible at all. 400x589.

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