Scientific American, Vol. 45, No. 25 (1881)
Scientific American volume 45, number 25, published in New York in 1881, is a weekly periodical for American inventors, engineers, mechanics and manufacturers. Its pages mix small advertisements for machine tools, bricks and printing type with a large wood-engraved stamping-room scene and a diagram of window shutter fittings. A designer could take from the dense classified-advertisement typography and the tidy engraved line work of the mechanical diagrams, which show labelled parts and cutaway views.
