The Technologist
A Victorian technology periodical published in London in 1861 by Kent & Co., aimed at engineers and manufacturers, and drawn from the Smithsonian Libraries holdings. Its engravings are fine-line black-and-white botanical and natural-history plates: leaves, a flowering branch, a knobby mineral or gall mass, and cut sections of tusk-like material. A designer could take their precise hatching and clean specimen-sheet layouts, with numbered parts labelled in the margins.
