Scientific American, Vol. 74, No. 9 (1896)
Scientific American, volume 74 issue 9 from 1896, a weekly American periodical of science and invention for a general readership of engineers, mechanics and inventors. The pictures are black-and-white wood engravings: a printing press with an overhead belt drive, dense classified advertisement pages, and a machine drawing of a supply pipe with valves and gauges. A designer might take the crowded typographic layouts and boxed ad blocks as models for dense, utilitarian period print.
