Charles S. Barker

Charles Spackman Barker (10 Oct 1806 – 26 Nov 1879 in Maidstone, England)[1] was a British inventor and organ builder.

He then developed a bellows system which was satisfactory, resulting in a primitive type of pneumatic lever.

[2] He went to France in 1837 where he met Aristide Cavaillé-Coll who was working on the organ at the Basilica of St Denis, near Paris.

[2] [4] He also met Albert Peschard, organist of the Church of St. Etienne, Caen, who commenced to experiment in electro-pneumatics in 1860, and early in 1861 communicated his discoveries to Barker.

[6] He received the Legion of Honour in 1855 but was expelled from France in 1870 owing to the expulsion of aliens consequent to the Franco-Prussian War.