Scientific American, Vol. 77, No. 26 (1897)
Scientific American, volume 77 number 26, published in New York in December 1897 as a weekly magazine for general readers interested in engineering, invention and new machinery. The pictures are black-and-white wood engravings and halftone photographs: a dry dock being pumped out, a sectioned gun barrel drawing, a driving mechanism for an aluminium balloon, and a page of small classified advertisements. A designer could take from them the dense, labelled technical plate style of the period, with clean line drawings, cropped photographic views and tightly set columns of small type.
