Scientific American, Vol. 80, No. 4 (1899)
Scientific American, volume 80, number 4 from 1899, a weekly American magazine of science, invention and engineering aimed at a general technical readership. Its pages mix engineering photographs, mechanical line drawings and trade advertisements. The pictures here show warship superstructure in a grainy photograph, plan and profile drawings of a battleship, and small period advertisements with bold display type, offering a designer examples of dense technical diagrams beside commercial display lettering.
