Scientific American, Vol. 48, No. 13 (1883)
Scientific American, volume 48, number 13, is a weekly American science and engineering periodical published in New York in 1883 for engineers, inventors, and mechanically minded general readers. Its pages carry technical engravings of machinery and apparatus alongside dense rows of trade advertisements for pumps, boilers, belting, and tools. The Hyatt filter engravings show cutaway water-filtration tanks with workers and piping, offering a designer clear period diagrams of industrial plant and advertising typography.
