Scientific American, Vol. 48, No. 3 (1883)
Scientific American volume 48 number 3 from 1883, a weekly American periodical of mechanical and scientific news for engineers, inventors and manufacturers, printed in New York. The pictures are wood-engraved mechanical drawings of lathes, steam engines and glassblowing machinery, with dense advertisement pages for steam engines, books and telephones. A designer could draw on their crisp line work, precise technical diagrams and dense Victorian typographic layouts.
