__1842: __Sir James Dewar is born, but not into a vacuum. He will invent a vessel designed to make research into gases at extreme low temperatures easier, and it does. But the Dewar Flask also becomes ...

For most people, a thermos is a simple object used to keep tea hot or water cold. Yet its origins lie not in kitchens, camping trips or school lunches, but in one of the most demanding scientific ...

Cryogenics is a branch of physics that concerns itself with the production and behaviour of materials at very low temperatures. While the liquefaction of oxygen achieved by French physicist Louis Paul ...

Dutch Design Week: a Victorian scientist's laboratory experiments inspired Dutch designer David Derksen to create these glass lamps and vases, which have double walls like a Thermos flask. The Dewar ...

Liquid nitrogen isn’t exactly an everyday material, but it’s acquired conveniently enough to be used in extreme overclocking experiments, classroom demonstrations, chemistry and physics experiments, ...

If Scottish chemist and physicist James Dewar had only patented his 1892 invention, “a Dewar” would be the generic name for the vacuum flask instead of a thermos. His laboratory experiments in the ...

This is one of the first ever vacuum flasks. While we generally use them to keep our drinks hot, vacuum flasks were invented by James Dewar in 1892 to keep things very cold. Dewar was interested in ...