Scientific American, Vol. 80, No. 12 (1899)
Scientific American, volume 80, number 12, published in New York in 1899 as a weekly magazine for a general readership of engineers, inventors and technically curious readers. Its pages mix black-and-white engravings of machines, patent listings and product advertisements. The pictures are mechanical and precise, showing heavy iron machinery, a large telescope-like gun or engine, a vehicle and a motor-car catalogue, which suit a designer wanting Victorian industrial detail and period engineering diagrams.
