History of composing machines; a complete record of the art of composing type by machinery ... also lists of patents on composing machines, American and British, chronologically arranged
A 1904 Chicago history of typesetting machinery by John S. Thompson, published by the Inland Printer Company and aimed at printers and type founders, cataloguing composing machines and their patents. The four plates show large mechanical keyboard composing machines on iron stands, with cast-iron frames, rows of keys, magazines of type and gears, drawn in a precise, catalogue-style black line. A designer could draw on their dense mechanical detail and the stark, engineered look of early industrial equipment.
