1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class X.: Archibald Hilson Ross
157. ROSS, ARCHIBALD HILSON, 25 Bridge St., Sunderland — Inventor and Designer.
A self-compensating barometer, having the scale which denotes the height of the mercurial column attached to float on the surface of the mercury in the cistern, to show the height of the barometrical column, which is the exact distance between the two surfaces. Design, a Corinthian column, supporting a figure of the late Sir Robert Peel.