Scientific American, Vol. 42, No. 26 (1880)
A weekly American periodical of 1880 aimed at general readers interested in science, invention and industry, offering engraved technical illustrations of machines, apparatus and works of its day. The pictures are precise black-and-white line engravings of mechanical and electrical devices, shown in clean outline with lettered reference points, useful to a designer for their crisp hatching, labelled diagrams and Victorian industrial character.
