Scientific American, Vol. 72, No. 7 (1895)
Scientific American, volume 72, number 7, published in New York in February 1895, was a weekly technical magazine for inventors, engineers and general readers. Its pages mix wood-engraved machine drawings, such as a rail-laying apparatus and a hand-operated cart, with dense classified advertising for patents, tools, typewriters and machinery. A designer might take from them the crowded, ruled layout of late nineteenth-century trade advertisements and the crisp hatched linework used to describe mechanical parts.
