Iron County Record | 1932-12-22 | Page 7 | Credit for Steam Calliope

Credit for Steam Calliope Invention of the calliope Is la credited credit credit- ed Id to P F. F I I. I I. I Calliope a Frenchman by hy Uncle Bog Rog OIt Sherwood one of ot Barnum's Barnum's Bar Bar- num's clowns downs In his book Hold 11 Your Horses So far tar as Is known Sherwood writes this man Calliope made the time first steam calliope which naturally bore his name That was almost years ago It was then then a collection of steam whistles and took two persons per sons sona to operate It They worked ropes attached to the valves va of the whistles One played the bass whistles the other oth oth- other er the treble Then along about 75 iI years year ago a New ew Englander Josiah C C. Introduced the piano keyboard keyboard key key- board on the calliope Ills Ills' model was pretty much what we have hare today to to- day