Scientific American, Vol. 33, No. 24 (1875)
A weekly American science and mechanics periodical from 1875, printed in New York for engineers, inventors and tradesmen. Its pages mix technical engraved diagrams of machinery and plumbing fixtures with trade advertisements for materials, engines and tools. The pictures are crisp black-and-white line engravings with labelled parts, offering a designer clear mechanical drawings, lettering in period typefaces, and dense advertisement layouts to draw on.
