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Fact #114724

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Inventor Joshua C. Stoddard of Worcester, Massachusetts, USA patents the Steam Calliope - a musical instrument which produces sound by sending steam through large whistles, originally locomotive whistles. It is described as an "Apparatus for Producing Music by Steam or Compressed Air".