Scientific American, Vol. 48, No. 23 (1883)
A weekly American science and engineering periodical from 1883, issued by its New York publisher for a general readership of inventors, mechanics and tradesmen. Its pages carry wood-engraved diagrams of apparatus, experiments and machinery. The pictures are dense black-and-white line engravings with labelled parts and lettered callouts, offering a designer clear technical drawings of 1880s equipment such as boilers, hot-water heaters, pumps and microscope-based germ studies.
