Scientific American, Vol. 32, No. 14 (1875)
Scientific American, volume 32, number 14, is a weekly American periodical of 1875 aimed at inventors, engineers and tradesmen, printed in New York. Its pages mix small advertisements for wheels, roofing, seeds and business services with technical engravings of machinery such as water injectors and boiler fittings. A designer might take from the dense newspaper-style advertisement layouts a model for tightly packed boxed text, and from the crisp black-and-white engravings a precise, mechanical line-drawing style.
