Barker, Charles Spaceman

BARKER, Charles Spaceman. [See vol. i. p. 139, and vol. ii. pp. 599 and 607.] The following additional details were communicated by him to the writer. He learnt his art under Mr. Bishop, of London. His invention of the pneumatic lever was not adopted in the organs at York and Birmingham, for financial considerations. He went to France in 1837. Besides the organ of St. Denis, his pneumatic lever was applied to those of St. Roch and the Madeleine in Paris...