Scientific American, Vol. 80, No. 14 (1899)
Scientific American, volume 80, number 14, is a weekly American magazine of 1899 published in New York for engineers, inventors and general technical readers. Its pages mix engraved machine drawings, such as a vertical engine and a lens-grinding machine, with dense advertising columns for acetylene lamps, aluminum paint, cameras, cylinder presses and sheet-metal tools. A designer could draw on the crisp, labelled line engravings for mechanical diagrams and on the period typefaces and ad layouts of the columns for early commercial typography.
