Scientific American, Vol. 48, No. 24 (1883)
Scientific American, volume 48, number 24, is a weekly American periodical of 1883 aimed at inventors, engineers and general technical readers, published in New York. Its pictures are small black-and-white wood engravings of machines and apparatus, with captions, scattered among columns of print and advertisements. A designer could take from them the crisp hatching, clean outlines and tidy labelled technical drawing typical of nineteenth-century mechanical illustration.
