Scientific American, Vol. 62, No. 18 (1890)
A weekly American science and engineering periodical from 1890, published in New York for inventors, engineers and mechanics, carrying technical notices, patent news and trade advertisements. Its engravings show mechanical devices with clear line drawings, and a designer could take from them the crisp hatched-line technique of 19th-century machine illustration, with cutaway details and labelled parts for industrial subjects.
