Scientific American, Vol. 44, No. 19 (1881)
Scientific American, volume 44, number 19, published in New York in 1881, was a weekly periodical for a general readership interested in science, engineering and invention. Its pictures are black-and-white wood engravings of practical objects: fence fastenings and fence designs with ornamental finials, and a telescope on a turned pedestal stand. A designer might take from them the crisp hatched shading and the vocabulary of cast-iron ornament, such as finials, scrolls and repeated pickets.
