Scientific American, Vol. 40, No. 14 (1879)
Scientific American, volume 40, number 14, is a weekly American periodical of 1879 that reported on new patented inventions and engineering for a general readership of inventors and mechanics. Its pictures are black-and-white engraved technical diagrams of machinery, boilers, and hand tools shown in plan, elevation, and detail views with lettered parts. A designer might draw on their precise linework, labelled cutaway views, and the dense mechanical geometry of late nineteenth-century industrial drawing.
