Scientific American, Vol. 98, No. 20 (1908)
Scientific American, volume 98, number 20, is a 1908 American weekly magazine of science, invention and engineering, aimed at inventors, manufacturers and general readers, and its pages are mostly dense small-type advertisements. The pictures show classified ads for patent agents, a six horsepower engine with a propeller, a tool and machinery catalogue, a life insurance table and a Prudential advertisement. A designer might take from them the crowded typographic texture of early twentieth-century trade advertising, with its bold display headings and boxed ad layouts.
