Scientific American, Vol. 5, No. 36 (1850)
Scientific American volume 5, number 36, published in New York in 1850, is a weekly periodical for American mechanics, inventors and manufacturers, reporting patents and machinery. Its pictures are small black-and-white wood engravings of ship blades, a screw-and-socket joint, and planing or stone-dressing machines, showing mechanical detail a designer could borrow for gears, joints and industrial forms.
