Materials & Manufacturing · Recorded milestone
Superconductivity
Recorded year1911
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes finds mercury loses all electrical resistance near absolute zero.
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Led to
- Dilution refrigeratorRecorded · 1964enables
- MRI scannerRecorded · 1977enables
- High-temperature superconductorsRecorded · 1986enables
- Large Hadron ColliderRecorded · 2008enables
- Black-hole imageRecorded · 2019requires
- Quantum supremacy demoRecorded · 2019enables
- SI redefined on constantsRecorded · 2019requires
- Superconducting maglev lineForecast · ~2038enables
- Superconducting AI chipsForecast · ~2046enables
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.