Experiments relating to the alleged influence of colour on the radiation of non-luminous heat
This is a scientific paper by Alexander Dallas Bache, published in Philadelphia around 1835, reporting experiments on whether surface colour affects how non-luminous heat radiates, written for physicists and engineers. Its single picture is a dense printed data table, with columns for each coated substance, its colour, date, observed and corrected cooling times, and remarks, set in ruled lines with a plain serif type. A designer might take from it the rigid grid of ruled columns and the tabular hierarchy of small type under a centred heading.
