Calliope hummingbird, Selasphorus calliope (synonyms, Stellula calliope, Archilochus calliope and Trochilus calliope; protonym, Trochilus (Calothorax) Calliope), Gould, 1847, photographed near ...
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 ...