Scientific American, Vol. 47, No. 27 (1882)
This is a weekly American science and technology periodical from 1882, published in New York for engineers, inventors, and mechanics. Its pages are dense with trade advertisements for machinery, tools, and patent devices, and one engraved plate shows the Brush storage battery in a room with a man in a top hat. A designer might take from it the crowded, typographic layout of Victorian trade ads, with mixed blackletter, slab, and condensed display faces arranged in tight columns.
