Scientific American, Vol. 79, No. 5 (1898)
A weekly American science and technology magazine, volume 79 from 1898, aimed at engineers, inventors and general readers interested in industry. Its pages mix photographs of the wrecked Spanish warships after the Spanish-American War with engraved diagrams of mining cars, couplings and ship ventilators. A designer might draw on the stark wartime photographs of grounded and burning hulls and on the precise black-line engraved machinery, which read as clear technical documentation of the period.
