Scientific American, Vol. 80, No. 5 (1899)
Scientific American volume 80, number 5, from 1899, was a weekly American magazine of science, engineering and invention, written for inventors, engineers and general technical readers. Its pages are dense with classified advertisements, trade notices and technical line drawings. The pictures are small, crowded scans: gasoline engine and dynamo ads with woodcut-style machinery, a plan drawing of motors and gearing in a boat, and columns of mechanical adverts set in tight typography, which a designer might borrow for dense vintage layouts and boxed ad framing.
