Scientific American, Vol. 92, No. 17 (1905)
Scientific American, volume 92, number 17 from 1905, a weekly American science and technology magazine printed in New York for engineers, inventors and general readers. The pages are dense with classified trade advertisements for patent agents, water motors, air guns, sewing machines and fire extinguishers, plus small notices and a book review column. A designer could take the compact multi-column layouts, heavy display type and boxed ad blocks as models for dense early twentieth-century commercial typography.
