Timeline of low-temperature technology - Definition and Overview

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 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

Example Usage of low-temperature
	cbellh47: @XiNeutrino I'm in Mississippi where it usually never snows. It snowed a week ago. We've had numerous low temperature records during summer.
	WallyVega: The low temperature in Miami today is 72. :-/ fml
	antonyhook: @joswinson you need moisture, low temperature and particles to condense around like sea salt.

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Example Usage of low-temperature