Scientific American, Vol. 80, No. 23 (1899)
Scientific American, volume 80, number 23, published in New York in 1899, is a weekly periodical for a general technical readership of inventors, engineers and manufacturers. Its pictures are black-and-white wood engravings and halftone photographs: a projector-style apparatus with a cutaway, a fire engine and a pump, small trade advertisements, and a factory finishing hall. A designer could take from them the dense, labelled technical drawing style of late nineteenth-century industrial print and the look of machinery halls.
