Scientific American, January 12, 1856. New system of Numeration and Measurement

Features

A Water Wheel Railroad

Peck's Patent Drop Press

New Guano Island

A Tall Chimney

A Large Ruby

Frozen Flesh

List of Patent Claims

Deep Artesian Well--Heat of the Earth

Steel Manufacture at Pittsburgh

A New Perpetual Motion

The Democratic Tendencies of Science

Wind Flouring Mills for the Prairies

Gloves

Granite Dust a Fertilizer

Compressed Air Engines for City Railroads

Receipts of the Paris Exhibition; American Reapers

Locomotive Telegraph

Safety Spirit Lamp

Improvement in Seeding Machines

Epidemics and Their Causes

Railroad Collision

Report of the Secretary of the Interior

Water Descending and Hot Air Ascending

Back Numbers Volume 11

Extinguishing a Burning Coal Mine

Award of the Scientific American Prizes

The Quality of American Wool

California.--Her Work and Ways

Draining of a Sea

Recent Foreign Inventions

A New and Improved System of Numeration and Measurement

Important Items

Excessive Division of Labor Injurious

Milk of Wax for the Skin

Cochineal

Extract of Indigo--Salts of Tin

Price of Coal in England

Mechanics

Lake Superior Iron

Oxyd of Tin as a Polishing Powder

A Great Steamship Company

Preparation of Colcothar