Victorian Wheel Barometer Commemorating the Life of the Duke of Wellington Dorfwych Richard was awarded a silver

Richard was awarded a silver medal by The Royal Scottish Society of Arts for his developments in meteorological instruments and published twenty seven papers on philosophical instruments between 1837 & 1868

An advert for the lens that appears in the Comic Almanack in 1836 reads:

Presumably intended as a miniature form of the Robinson’s cup anemometer with the compactness of the miner’s air meter dial

the receiver is secured by two thumbscrews

Victorian Wheel Barometer Commemorating the Life of the Duke of Wellington Dorfwych Richard was awarded a silverFor sale, a highly unusual Victorian wheel barometer commemorating the death of The Duke of Wellington. The body is comprised entirely from oak and lavishly carved throughout. The pediment of the barometer is peaked with five carved Royal ostrich feathers in emulation of those which graced Wellingtons Funeral Car. They surround a carved relief portrait medallion of Wellington himself with a leaf surround. The neck below is equally embellished with a