Scientific American, Vol. 50, No. 2 (1884)
Scientific American, volume 50, number 2, is a weekly American science and technology magazine published in New York in 1884 for engineers, inventors and mechanics. Its pages mix small engraved machine drawings with dense advertisements for tools, woodworking machinery, typewriters and steel castings. A designer could draw on the compact engraved line work, the bold display type of the advertisements and the crowded column layouts typical of nineteenth-century trade print.
