After an oil drilling operation in 1903 in Dexter, Kansas, produced a gas geyser that would not burn, Kansas state geologist Erasmus Haworth collected samples of the escaping gas and took them back to the University of Kansas at Lawrence where, with the help of chemists Hamilton Cady and David McFarland, he discovered that the gas consisted of, by volume, 72 % nitrogen, 15 % methane ( a combustible percentage only with sufficient oxygen ), 1 % hydrogen, and 12 % an unidentifiable gas.

After graduating from high school in 1945, Falk briefly attended Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, and then tried to join the armed services as World War II was drawing to a close.

After a year and a half in the Merchant Marine, Falk returned to Hamilton College and also attended the University of Wisconsin.

After discovering quaternions, William Rowan Hamilton commented, " Time is said to have only one dimension, and space to have three dimensions.

After admission to the Ohio bar, Taft was appointed Assistant Prosecutor of Hamilton County, Ohio, based in Cincinnati.

After separating, Dillinger picked up Hamilton, who was recovering from the Mason City robbery.

After a debate that divided members largely along the lines of generation and gender, the Chickahominy Neighborhood Association voted unanimously yesterday not to bring a controversial Revolutionary War mural back to Hamilton Avenue School because its content is too violent.

After Hamilton left office in 1795, the new Secretary of the Treasury Oliver Wolcott, Jr. informed Congress that, due to the existing state of government finances, more money was needed.

After retiring, he wrote The Singer and His Art ( Hamish Hamilton, 1971 ).

After concealing the wagon, Hamilton took one of the Parsons ' mules and fit it with the saddle he had traded to Parsons and headed back into town.

After Hamilton resigned in October 1994, he voted in a 1995 leadership ballot.

After her father's death, Florence, her mother and two older brothers moved from Hamilton, Ontario to Buffalo, New York.

After being disappointed, according to biographer Ian Hamilton, when " rumblings from Hollywood " over his 1943 short story " The Varioni Brothers " came to nothing, J. D. Salinger did not hesitate when independent producer Samuel Goldwyn offered to buy the film rights to " Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut.

After the failure of the Austrian invasion of Saxony, Hamilton left Neuruppin on 10 October and headed for the River Oder, in the hopes of joining up with the Russians.

After crossing Crosswicks Creek, US 130 continues into Hamilton Township, Mercer County, where Route 156 splits to the west to parallel US 130 as it bypasses Yardville to the east.

After Helmet split up, Hamilton started Gandhi, toured with David Bowie and explored a variety of musical styles.

After an education at a preparatory school in Hamilton and the High School of Glasgow, Law left school aged sixteen to gain a " commercial education " at the family firm.

After two weeks of manoeuvre and engagements ( including The Battle of the Clouds, The Paoli Massacre, and an engagement at Valley Forge where Alexander Hamilton was nearly lost ), Howe triumphantly entered the city on 26 September.

After his death in 1786, his holdings were forfeited to merchant Robert Hamilton of Queenston.

After returning to her Aunt Ida's ( Lynn Hamilton ) house, Billie accidentally leaves the door open, puts on a record, giving the rapist the chance to slip inside ; Billie is raped.

After boundary changes, he was returned at the 1997 election for the new constituency of Hamilton North and Bellshill ; and after further boundary changes in 2005, he was returned at the 2005 election for the new constituency of Airdrie and Shotts with 59 % of the vote.

After a 2 – 1 series victory over the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the Western Finals, the Lions lined up in the 51st Grey Cup game against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

After his brother's death, Hamilton took over Murdostoun, where he renovated the castle extensively.

After Charles Throsby's 1818 journey towards present day Goulburn, followed by Hamilton Hume and William Hovell's overland journey from Appin ( near Campbelltown ) to Port Phillip and return in 1824, development of the Southern Tablelands for agriculture was rapid.

After passing Kovalainen at the start, Barrichello managed not to lose too much time, as he had the advantage of just one stop against Hamilton, Räikkönen and Sutil's two stop strategy.

After they had finished eating, Melissa took Sprite the kitten under her arm -- `` so that Auntie Grace can teach it about the whistle '' -- and climbed into the station wagon beside her mother.

After the war, Penny had wanted Keith at least to visit her home with her.

After all, he had less reason to desire it than the marine.

After he had spent the first three years in New York as associate conductor, at Toscanini's invitation, of the NBC Orchestra, he made numerous guest appearances throughout the United States and Latin America.

After he had finished the first two volumes of his Lincoln, Sandburg went to work assembling a book of songs out of hobo and childhood days and from the memory of songs others had taught him.

After luncheon we took advantage of the siesta period to try to get in touch with a few people to whom our dear friend Deppy had written.

After all, Pike was an established poet and his work had been published in the respectable periodicals of that center of American culture, Boston.

After they had paid all his debts and the funeral costs, Ralph and Fred had some fourteen thousand dollars, as I remember, with which to pay the bequests.

After Quiney was elected bailiff in September, 1601, without Greville's approval, Greene wrote him that Coke had promised to be of counsel for Stratford and had advised `` that the office of bayly may be exercised as it is taken upon you, ( Sr. Edwardes his consent not beinge hadd to the swearinge of you ) ''.

After a dinner party for which she had come down to New York, Mrs. Lewis and Casanova arrived to see them off, and Elinor Wylie made tart observations that indicated that Lewis had been less discreet than he had promised to be about the real nature of their separation.

After almost everyone had gone he told me the simple story of how one of his neighbors had moved a fence a few feet over on his land.

After a nuclear blast, one bureaucrat suggested in those halcyon days, about all you had to do was haul out the broom and sweep off your sidewalks and roof.

After a pause, during which he studied Scotty's face as if Scotty were not there and could not study him too, Mr. McKinley would ask the same questions he had asked downstairs.

After she had served the detectives coffee and toast ( they politely declined eggs, uncomfortable about their tenancy ), she settled down with a morning newspaper and began reading the stock market quotations.

After he had gone, Kate asked Uncle Randolph proudly, `` Would you take their oath ''??

After they had left, some of the people moved around, to find more comfortable places to sit.

After that they had sat for five minutes without saying a word.

After the first few weeks, it was obvious that rules had to be made, laid down and obeyed -- even if our popularity ratings became subnormal as a result.

After an unspeakable siege, lasting the better part of two months, it was announced that the studio `` owed '' the government a tax debt in excess of eight million dollars while I, who had always remained aloof from such iniquitous practices as paying taxes on the salary I had earned and the little I legally inherited as Morris' helpless relict, was `` stung '' with a personal bill of such astronomical proportions as to `` wipe out '' all but a fraction of my poor, hard-come-by savings.