Scientific American, Vol. 34, No. 17 (1876)
A weekly American science and engineering periodical from 1876, printed in New York for a general readership of inventors, mechanics and manufacturers. Its pages carry wood-engraved machine drawings with lettered reference figures, showing sewing machines, cloth-finishing equipment and industrial apparatus. A designer could draw on their crisp mechanical linework, numbered callouts and dense technical layouts for industrial or retro engineering motifs.
