FROST OF NEARLY 500 DEGREES.—The lowest temperature ever recorded in New Zealand—minus 460 degrees Fahrenheit—was produced in this new liquidhelium plant at the University of Canterbury yesterday. The process is described in an article today. In this photograph, a senior technician (Mr J. P. Pollard) is working the controls on left, while the senior lecturer in physics in charge of the project (Mr T. J. Seed) draws off liquid helium into special vacuum flasks.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29830, 24 May 1962, Page 15
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74FROST OF NEARLY 500 DEGREES.—The lowest temperature ever recorded in New Zealand—minus 460 degrees Fahrenheit—was produced in this new liquidhelium plant at the University of Canterbury yesterday. The process is described in an article today. In this photograph, a senior technician (Mr J. P. Pollard) is working the controls on left, while the senior lecturer in physics in charge of the project (Mr T. J. Seed) draws off liquid helium into special vacuum flasks. Press, Volume CI, Issue 29830, 24 May 1962, Page 15
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