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1. Shunt and plumb bob, a whirring top That keeps touching down on its pivot.

by Sharon Levy 1.Shunt and plumb bob, a whirring topThat keeps touching down on its pivot.

1.Shunt and plumb bob, a whirring topThat keeps touching down on its pivot.

Most convincing is a giant gold-leafed plumb bob bearing esoteric symbols and a clunky series of bronze humanoids based on medieval anthropological speculations (Johnson).

"I'd wear jogging pants to work and the guys used to joke that, 'You could drop a plumb bob from the back of your head and the string wouldn't hit anything before it hit the ground,' " he said, referring to the weight on a string used for surveying.

A sepulchral slab from the catacombs for a Roman surveyor depicts a tool of he trade: A level with lead wire and plumb bob (4th c. CE, now at the Baths of Diocletian).

Hold the plumb bob in place just long enough for the dimple to become cloudy.

You may have a peephole at the base of the unit, or you can use a plumb bob.

Use a plumb bob to reference where the staircase's center pole will be by hanging it from the top landing to the floor below.

defer.add img); plumb bob toggle off This turns off the diamond above your sim's head and will look better in pictures.

The level and alignment do not require the kind of fancy laser plumb bobs and rangefinders that fill engineering catalogs.