Scientific American, Vol. 18, No. 2 (1868)
A weekly American periodical of 1868 devoted to science, invention and mechanical practice, aimed at engineers, inventors and general readers. Its pages carry engraved diagrams of apparatus, machines and tools drawn in precise linework with lettered reference points. The pictures suggest a designer could draw on crisp technical cutaways, flowing hose-like coils and utilitarian metal hand tools for industrial or retro-technical motifs.
