Scientific American, Vol. 62, No. 20 (1890)
A weekly American science and technology periodical from 1890, aimed at general readers, inventors and tradesmen, printed in New York and illustrated with wood-engraved line drawings of patents, devices and household fittings. The pictures are small, precise black-and-white engravings with hatched shading, and a designer might borrow their clear cutaway views, mechanical line work and period-appropriate hatching for technical or vintage-inspired graphics.
