Scientific American, Vol. 79, No. 3 (1898)
Scientific American, volume 79, number 3, from 1898, was a weekly American periodical for a general readership interested in science, invention and industry, printed in New York. Its pages mix engraved illustrations of new machines and devices with dense columns of small advertisements and classified listings. The engravings are crisp, black-and-white line drawings with cross-hatched shadows, offering designers clear examples of early technical illustration: the camera with a hand loading a plate, the hand-operated plough, and an ancient Roman wine cask photographed against a wall.
