Scientific American, Vol. 26, No. 2 (1872)
Scientific American volume 26, number 2 from 1872 is a weekly American periodical of engineering and invention news, published in New York for a general technical readership of inventors, mechanics and manufacturers. Its pages carry wood-engraved drawings of machines, valves, ships and tools, with patent-style lettered details. A designer can take the crisp line work, cutaway views and labelled diagrams as models for technical illustration, showing how mechanisms and cargo interiors are rendered in clean hatched outline.
