Scientific American, Vol. 34, No. 2 (1876)
Scientific American, volume 34 number 2 from 1876, a weekly American periodical of mechanical and scientific news for engineers, inventors and general readers. Its pictures are black-and-white engravings of machinery: a pump set on a baseplate, a fire pump with a tall air chamber, a vertical steam boiler with gauges and fittings, and a grate of cast iron bars. A designer might take their crisp hatched line work, dense technical detail and Victorian industrial character for period-accurate mechanical illustration.
