Scientific American, Vol. 34, No. 11 (1876)
Scientific American, volume 34, number 11 from 1876, a weekly American periodical reporting on engineering, invention and mechanical industry for a general technical readership. The pictures are wood engravings of mechanical subjects: a plate of mine pumping and shaft apparatus, a screw press, a steam quarrying machine, and a disk-and-flange drive mechanism. A designer might take the dense crosshatched line work and labelled cutaway plates as models for technical diagrams and engraved machinery.
