Scientific American, Vol. 36, No. 2 (1877)
Scientific American volume 36, number 2, published in 1877, is a weekly American periodical of technical and mechanical news for engineers, inventors and mechanics. The four pictures are wood-engraved mechanical drawings of machinery: a frame with stretchers and a gear mechanism, a steam-powered lifting or hoisting apparatus with a worker, a cast-iron bench lathe with a flywheel, and a detailed plan of a bearing with a bolt fitting. For a designer, their clean hatching and labelled line plans offer a tidy, technical vocabulary for industrial diagrams.
