Scientific American, Vol. 32, No. 1 (1875)
Scientific American volume 32, number 1 from 1875 is a weekly American periodical of engineering and invention news, published in New York for a general technical readership. Its engraved pages show machines and structures in precise line drawings, such as a printing press, a rotary sewing-type machine, a wool washing machine, and a wooden arch centering for the Fourth Avenue tunnel. A designer can draw on the clean hatching, plain mechanical forms and labelled diagrams for industrial, technical or retro-engineering motifs.
