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A VERY remarkable achievement, which will redound to the credit of English science, has been performed within the walls of the Royal Institution. For some time past it has been a matter of general knowledge that Prof. Dewar has been preparing for an attempt to produce liquid hydrogen on a large scale. Money has been freely subscribed for investigations to be carried on at low temperatures, and the laboratories of the Royal Institution have gradually approached more and more nearly to the likeness of an engineering workshop. Very grave difficulties had to be encountered, and. success seemed long in coming; but on. Tuesday, May 10, Prof. Dewar was able to inform the President of the Royal Society that on that, day both hydrogen and helium had succumbed to his attack.
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Liquid Hydrogen. Nature 58, 55–57 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058055a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/058055a0