Scientific American, Vol. 33, No. 17 (1875)
A weekly American science and invention periodical from 1875, printed in New York for a general readership of engineers, mechanics and inventors. Its pages are wood-engraved illustrations of machines, mechanisms and devices, with brief captions and fragments of adjacent text visible at the edges. The pictures show belt-driven pulleys, a printing press, a traction steam engine and a wall-mounted clock mechanism, offering a designer clear mechanical line drawings with dense hatching and shading suited to industrial and engineering motifs.
