Representing the direction of a line with bearings is a long-standing tradition that continues today on plats, legal descriptions, site plans, and other documents. Calculating the direction of a line ...

Calculating the traverse that represents a parcel can benefit significantly from something that is not properly taught: The use of azimuths. What is an azimuth? It is a horizontal angle of a line, ...

Back in the 1980s, Pacific Bearing Co. (PBC) invented and commercialized plain bearings, which were sized to be interchangeable with linear ball bearings. Plain bearings worked very well in certain ...