After James Prescott Joule had determined the mechanical equivalent of heat, Lord Kelvin approached the question from an entirely different point of view, and in 1848 devised a scale of absolute temperature which was independent of the properties of any particular substance and was based solely on the fundamental laws of thermodynamics.

After leaving school at the age of sixteen, he worked various odd jobs until, after receiving a scholarship, he began a five-year program at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough covering the practical and theoretical sides of electrical, electronic, and mechanical engineering.

After lode ore is crushed, recovery of the valuable minerals is done by one, or a combination of several, mechanical and chemical techniques.

After initially studying mechanical engineering and then art in Düsseldorf, Antwerp, and Munich, he turned to drawing caricatures.

After a consolidation of the mechanical watch industry in Switzerland during the 1970s, mass production of quartz wristwatches took off under the leadership of the Swatch Group of companies, a Swiss conglomerate with vertical control of the production of Swiss watches and related products.

After the acquisition, much of the house was renovated, mechanical and electrical systems were updated, and a service wing was converted into a studio for Winnick's wife Karen.

After graduating from high school he went on to earn a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario in 1982.

After a flight lasting 14 hours, 56 minutes during which she contended with strong northerly winds, icy conditions and mechanical problems, Earhart landed in a pasture at Culmore, north of Derry, Northern Ireland.

After some years, he was certified in Scotland as a mechanical engineer.

After relying on wax cylinder recording through the end of World War II, in 1947 Dictaphone introduced their Dictabelt technology, which cut a mechanical groove into a plastic belt instead of into a wax cylinder.

* The Phyrexian Invasion: After millennia of peace, the machine-like Phyrexians, who originate on a hellish mechanical world, invade the world of Dominaria led by the former Thran Yawgmoth from the pocket universe of Rath.

After the rise of Boolean algebra and the development of positional notation, it became possible to mechanize simple circuits for counting, first by mechanical means, such as gears and rods, using rotation and translation to represent changes of state, then by electrical means, using changes in voltage and current to represent the analogs of quantity.

After the Edison factory fire of December 1914, the Amberola line was simplified in mechanical and cabinet design resulting in the Amberola 30, 50, and 75 ( each serial number indicating the initial retail price of each player ).

After some cycles of loading and unloading the material, the mechanical response becomes independent of strain rate.

After Gillette, who had no children, died, his will statedI would consider it more than unfortunate for me – should I find myself doomed, after death, to a continued consciousness of the behavior of mankind on this planet – to discover that the stone walls and towers and fireplaces of my home – founded at every point on the solid rock of Connecticut ; – that my railway line with its bridges, trestles, tunnels through solid rock, and stone culverts and underpasses, all built in every particular for permanence ( so far as there is such a thing ); – that my locomotives and cars, constructed on the safest and most efficient mechanical principles ; – that these, and many other things of a like nature, should reveal themselves to me as in the possession of some blithering saphead who had no conception of where he is or with what surrounded.

After this incident, he is able to communicate with these mechanical arms via telepathy.

After several days, only a few were still in commission, those that suffered mechanical difficulties outnumbering those disabled by enemy fire.

After his death at Parma, 1813, his widow published Il Manuale tipografico ( The Manual of Typography ), presenting 373 characters, 34 Greek and 48 Oriental or exotic ones. William Morris considered Bodoni's mechanical perfection in typography the ultimate example of modern ugliness.

After hours of mechanical and chemical digestion, food has been reduced into chyme.

After mechanics started asking questions about the apparatus he used in his lectures, he had the idea of holding free, public lectures on the ' mechanical arts ' ( c 1800-1804 ).

After running a small number of trials variously described as being between Paris and Vincennes and at Meudon, the project was abandoned and the French Army's experiment with mechanical vehicles came to an end.

After high school he entered Faculty of Engineering at Džemal Bijedić University in Mostar and graduated in 1979 gaining a title of mechanical engineer.

After his return in 1950, thanks to Chancellor of West Germany Konrad Adenauer, he founded his fine mechanical firm “ Maschinenfabrik Hilden ”, until, in 1965, he retired.

After various trials, Mostler attributed their avoidance mainly to mechanical difficulties in handling: one young bird took 18 minutes to subdue, kill and eat a bumblebee.

After two previous failures, voters in the city passed a ballot measure in 2000 authorizing a bond measure for construction of a new library to replace the city's Carnegie library, damaged during the Loma Prieta earthquake.

After a number of notable successes and some early failures in the 1920s, the League ultimately proved incapable of preventing aggression by the Axis powers in the 1930s.

* 2008 – After critical failures in the US financial system began to build up after mid-September, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level since 1997.

After numerous failures in securing legislative sovereignty in the early 19th century many Poles simply gave up trying to attain a degree of independence from their foreign master-states.

After test failures with the first three flight tests because of guidance and sensor problems, the fourth and final test on June 10, 1984 was successful, intercepting the Minuteman RV with a closing speed of about 6. 1 km / s at an altitude of more than 160 km.

After repeated failures in Allied bombing attempts to hit the factory, a team of French Resistance fighters and SOE agents distracted the German guards with a game of soccer while part of their team entered the plant and destroyed machinery.

After the extraordinary successes of the 1940s and 50s, the 1960s and 70s brought personal turmoil and theatrical failures.

After these failures, Clotilde appeared to dedicate herself to a saintly life.

After the failures of the Pamela sequels, Richardson began to compose a new novel.

After these failures the English parliament forced Charles to make peace.

After some costly failures the Normans managed to construct a pontoon to reach the Isle of Ely, defeated the rebels at the bridgehead and stormed the island, marking the effective end of English resistance.

After these failures of the bullpup design to achieve widespread service, the concept continued to be explored ( for example: a second Korobov bullpup, the TKB-022 ).

After his failures in the Great Leap Forward, Mao decided to give up the State presidency in 1959.

After a number of failures and difficulties with money, Robinson suggested to Gordy to start his own label, which Gordy agreed.

After at least six failures, he was admitted in 1609.

After several failures, Caecilius gained a high reputation.

After two failures, Zond 3 was sent on a test mission, photographing the far side of the Moon ( only the second spacecraft to do so ) and continuing out to the orbit of Mars in order to test telemetry and spacecraft systems.

After experimentation both machines proved to be failures.

After two narrow failures to qualify for the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000, McCarthy took the nation to the 2002 World Cup held in Korea and Japan.

After repeated failures, he successfully gained appointment to the judiciary as a Justice of the Court of King's Bench on 16 February 1770, leaving to replace Edward Clive as a Justice of the Common Pleas on 25 June.

After the failures at Neuve Chapelle and Aubers Ridge, French briefed the press correspondent Repington in an attempt to pin the blame for the shell shortage onto Kitchener.

After failures trying rubber bands and metal pins, he settled on placing the slices into a cardboard tray.

After the financial failures of both plays they ended their relationship.

After test failures with the first three flight tests, the fourth and final test on 10 June 1984 was successful, intercepting the Minuteman RV with a closing speed of about 6. 1 km / s at an altitude of more than 160 km.