The flatness and levelness of concrete floors has become a big deal. If you've ever sat at a restaurant table that rocked up and down, slopping wine out of your glass and causing you to launch a ...

When floor flatness and levelness are measured using F-number technology, timing of measurements is critical because curling of slabs on ground increase with time. The result is decreased F-numbers ...

Jonas Wood richly entangles art and life. The U.S. painter’s eponymous new exhibition at Gagosian (Grosvenor Hill, London, until November 23) is littered with references to his family, Los Angeles ...

When you want to measure the length, breadth, or depth of an object, there are plenty of instruments for the job. You can start with a tape measure, move up to calipers if you need more precision, or ...

A Lou Mitchell’s pancake. A pool table at Chris’s Billiards. A thin-crust pizza from Vito & Nick’s. Each evokes one of Chicago’s overwhelmingly obvious physical features: flatness. Geologically ...

When Jerry Dobson moved to Kansas in 2001, he was bombarded with questions and quips about the "flatness" of his new state. He had spent his life in the mountains of Georgia and Tennessee, so he had ...

Chucks are used in various areas of the semiconductor industry: in lithographic processes, inspection steps, coating, 3D integration, wafer handling and during etching processes. Their purpose is to ...