Scientific American, Vol. 33, No. 7 (1875)
Scientific American, volume 33, number 7, is a weekly American periodical of 1875 that reported on new inventions, machinery and engineering for a general technical readership. Its pictures are black-and-white wood engravings of devices in cross-section, workshop scenes and machine plans, with fine hatching, labelled figure numbers and dense line work that a designer could draw on for mechanical or industrial motifs.














