Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies
A periodical of engineering society proceedings issued in 1881 by the Association of Engineering Societies in New York, aimed at American engineers and technical readers. The four plates are line-drawn technical diagrams: timber framing and truss elevations, a load diagram with vertical reaction arrows and a parabolic cable curve, a sectional girder with a jacking mechanism, and a cylindrical vessel with radiating fins; a designer could borrow their crisp hatched linework, dense technical labelling and schematic structure.
