Scientific American, Vol. 48, No. 8 (1883)
Scientific American, volume 48 issue 8 from 1883, a weekly American magazine for engineers, inventors and general readers of science and mechanics. The pictures are black-and-white wood engravings of technical devices: an oxyhydrogen burner, a bucket dredging or conveyor mechanism, and a ship's hold being filled with cargo through a chute. Their clean line work, labelled parts and dense trade advertisements give a designer a sense of 19th-century technical diagrams and advertising layout.
