Scientific American, Vol. 44, No. 17 (1881)
Scientific American, volume 44, number 17, is a weekly American magazine of 1881 published in New York for engineers, inventors and general readers of science and mechanics. Its pictures are black-and-white wood engravings of machines and devices, including a goblet grinding machine, a registering barometer, a wheel with spokes, and trade advertisements for chucks, pulleys and wood preservatives, drawn with clean outlines and dense hatching that a designer could borrow for technical diagrams and vintage industrial graphics.
