Preliminary note on the liquefaction of hydrogen and helium

Abstract

In a paper entitled “The Liquefaction of Air and Research at Low Temperatures,” read before the Chemical Society, and published in their ‘Proceedings,' No. 158, an account is given of the history of the hydrogen problem and the result of my own experiments up to the end of the year 1895. The subject is again discussed in a Friday Evening Lecture on “New Researches on Liquid Air,” which contains a drawing of the apparatus employed for the production of a jet of hydrogen containing liquid. It was shown that such a jet could be used to cool bodies below the temperature that could be reached by the use of liquid air, but all attempts to collect the liquid in vacuum vessels failed.