1855: A patent is issued for the steam-powered calliope. Joshua Stoddard, a beekeeper and sometime inventor from Worcester, Massachusetts, was the recipient, although the instrument already existed in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jun. 18—PERU — Zachary Morecraft stood in front of a wall of steam surrounded by the shrieking blast of whistles Friday morning.

FULLERTON – Eighty years ago, young Paul Freiling sat by a creek in Hannibal, Mo., whittling whistles from willow branches. In the distance he could hear a different kind of whistle bellowing from the ...

Whistles, a clown in the Starlight Calliope circus, was beloved by all. One day, an accident nearly cost him his life, and he became exposed to the corrupt underworld of the circus, rife with murder ...

On December 31, 2014, Pratt Institute Chief Engineer Conrad Milster led the final New Year’s Eve steam whistle ceremony, a 50-year tradition where the Pratt community, local Brooklyn neighbors, and ...

ASPEN ” Live steam has awakened a beast in Aspen for every Wintersköl parade since 1976, as Carl Bergman’s hulking steam calliope toots and whistles its way down through the downtown. And this year ...