Scientific American, Vol. 79, No. 11 (1898)
This is a weekly American science and engineering periodical from 1898, printed in New York for a general readership of inventors, engineers and businessmen. Its pages mix engraved and photographic illustrations of machinery, government exhibits and industrial work, and the four pictures here show a statue being cast in a foundry, weather bureau instruments on a table, a bronze figure being lifted from its mould, and glass display cases at the Patent Office. A designer might take from them the dense, documentary look of late nineteenth-century technical reportage, with its heavy shadows, cluttered workshop interiors and sober, crowded layouts.
