Scientific American, Vol. 40, No. 19 (1879)
Scientific American, volume 40, number 19, is a weekly American periodical of 1879 aimed at inventors, engineers and general technical readers, printed in New York. Its pages carry engraved views of machinery, ship construction and optical devices, shown in plain line drawings with figure labels. A designer could draw on the crisp, labelled diagram style, with its hatched shading and numbered figures, for technical or retro instructional graphics.
