Scientific American, Vol. 52, No. 6 (1885)
Scientific American volume 52, number 6 from 1885 is a weekly American magazine of science and engineering, written for a general technical readership of inventors and mechanics. Its engraved pages show instruments, machines and industrial installations with numbered figure captions. A designer might take the crisp hatched line work, the boxed instrument cutaways and the dense small-type layouts as models for technical diagrams.
