Scientific American, Vol. 47, No. 8 (1882)
Scientific American volume 47, number 8, is a weekly American science and engineering periodical from 1882, written for a general readership of inventors, engineers and businessmen. Its pictures are black-and-white wood engravings of machines, apparatus and workshop scenes, with labelled diagrams and numbered figures; a designer could draw on their precise line work, clear part labelling and the period's mechanical detail.
