Scientific American, Vol. 51, No. 17 (October 1884)
An issue of the New York weekly Scientific American from October 1884, reporting patents, industrial machinery and laboratory apparatus for engineers, inventors and general readers. Wood-engraved figures show lettered cutaways of gas and pressure vessels, banks of cylindrical batteries and pedestal-mounted machines, with dense hatching and cast-iron scrollwork useful as technical diagram motifs or stock machine silhouettes.
