Scientific American, Vol. 53, No. 2 (1885)
Scientific American, volume 53 issue 2 from 1885, a weekly American periodical for engineers, inventors and general readers, printed in New York and aimed at the mechanically minded public. Its pages are dense mixed layouts of small wood-engraved machine drawings, advertisements for engines, presses and foundries, and short technical notices. A designer could draw on the tight typographic grids, boxed ad blocks and crisp black-line mechanical engravings for industrial or vintage technical layouts.
