Scientific American, Vol. 44, No. 7 (1881)
This is a weekly American periodical, Scientific American volume 44 issue 7 from 1881, published in New York for a general readership of engineers, inventors and tradesmen. Its pages mix small trade advertisements and product notices with wood-engraved views of machines and apparatus, such as a steam engine beside a brick mill wall, a continuous-slide lantern and a cylindrical mechanism with a threaded screw. A designer could take from them the crisp hatched line work and dense, mixed-scale page layouts typical of nineteenth-century technical print.
