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
• 1908 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes liquefies helium
• 1911 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovery superconductivity
• 1926 - Willem Hendrik Keesom solidifies helium