Whether you are sketching graphs in mathematics, understanding directions in geography, or reading blueprints in design class, horizontal and vertical lines are concepts you cannot avoid. They form ...
THE microseismograph, devised a few years ago by Prof. Vicentini, of Padua, is now well known as one of the most valuable of the vertical pendulums used in Italy for recording earthquake movements.
Horizontal lines run left to right, parallel to the horizon, with slope 0 and equation y = k. Vertical lines run top to bottom, perpendicular to the horizon, with undefined slope and equation x = k.