Scientific American, Vol. 82, No. 17 (1900)
Scientific American volume 82, number 17, a weekly American science and technology magazine published in New York in 1900 for engineers, inventors and general readers. Its pages mix technical illustrations with dense small-type classified advertising for tools, cameras, cures and mail-order gadgets, showing turn-of-the-century commercial typography and layout. A designer could take its tightly packed columns, mixed display faces and boxed ad compositions as models for dense editorial layouts.
