Scientific American, Vol. 79, No. 10 (1898)
A 1898 issue of the Scientific American, the American weekly magazine of science and engineering written for a general readership, with photographs of warships and a railway train. The pictures are black-and-white halftone photographs of ships under way at sea and a steam locomotive hauling a passenger express along a track. A designer could take from them the hard, grey tonal range of early photo-halftone printing, with smoke plumes, rigging and deck detail that read clearly at small sizes.
