Scientific American, Vol. 75, No. 22 (1896)
Scientific American, volume 75, number 22 from 1896, a weekly American periodical for a general readership of engineers, inventors and technically curious readers, printed in New York. The pictures are black-and-white wood engravings of machines and apparatus, including a shifting mechanism diagram, a wire-winding machine, and phonographs with multiple cylinders. Their crisp contour lines, labelled parts and dense cross-hatched shadows suggest a designer could borrow the precise, diagrammatic style of late nineteenth-century technical illustration.
