Scientific American, Vol. 80, No. 6 (1899)
Scientific American volume 80, number 6 from 1899, a weekly American periodical for engineers, inventors and general technical readers, printed in New York. Its pages are dense with advertisements for tools, engines, telephones, typewriters, and patent goods, set in tight columns with small woodcut illustrations. A designer might take the crowded advertising typography, bold display headings, and the simple black-line machine drawings as period models for mechanical graphics.
