Amazon.com description: Product Description: "The thirteen contributors to this book formed the nucleus of the materials group of the Cryogenics Division of the National Bureau of Standards. Formed in 1952 they served emerging low-temperature technologies requiring cryogenic materials, such as space, LNG storage and transportation, magnetohydrodynamic energy conversion, fusion, high-energy physics, and other aspects of applied superconductivity. They evolved into the largest materials research group in the free world devoted to low-temperature research." This book is the summary of their data and experience. They hope it will help others involved in future projects with their design and material selection at low temperatures. (From the book's preface).