Scientific American, Vol. 31, No. 6 (1874)
Scientific American, volume 31, number 6, published in New York in 1874, was a weekly periodical for engineers, inventors and manufacturers. Its pages are dense with trade advertisements for tools, machinery, roofing, wire rope and patent devices. The pictures are small woodcut-style line engravings of gears, pulleys, valves, lathes and building facades, arranged in tight multi-column grids with bold display type, which suggests strong layouts for packing many items into one page.
