Where's the calibration certificate on his equipment? What is its design tolerance?

My point of view is that a circular curve has one radius and delta. You can describe it by different definitions of "degree" and "length". It's not ...

It would be interesting to see how they deal with the approximation built into the railroad formulas when fractional-station chords occur. As I think...

>Joe Webber Sr. had an interesting book about the original surveysin the Midwest.Maybe this one:• EARLY PUBLIC LAND SURVEYS IN THE NORTHWEST TERRIT...

>I also know a lot of guys who couldn't calculate an arc-length without a computer program.This brings up something I've noticed: Why do they still...

UpdateThe business web page listed on his facebook page came up as cancelled. Not an encouraging sign.

DEEP-1 MagnetWhat are the odds that a magnet set by a government agency follows the color code as quoted on the Berntsen site, and the odds that one u...

Coins under cornersObviously if monuments had cash value, even significant scrap value, somebody would dig them up without worrying about what they ma...

I tried to check the given data against itself tonight, and mostly succeeded.115-116: that hard-to-read length is 334.0, not 353.016-16: radius bearin...

Computed or Calculated used to and can still mean "found from numerical operations" whether that was done on paper, with a slide rule, with a Marchant...