Scientific American, Vol. 43, No. 2 (1880)
Scientific American volume 43, number 2, published in New York in 1880, was a weekly periodical of technical news for a general readership of inventors and engineers. Its pictures are black-and-white wood engravings of mechanisms: a clockwork-driven distribution apparatus, a vertical hoist shaft, a receiving clock movement, and a hay or straw device with numbered parts, all drawn with crisp outlines and labelled figure numbers that suggest diagram layouts a designer could adapt for technical infographics.
