The columbiad was a large-caliber, smoothbore, muzzle-loading cannon able to fire heavy projectiles at both high and low trajectories. This feature enabled...

The Columbiad (1807) is a philosophical epic poem by the American diplomat and man of letters Joel Barlow. It grew out of Barlow's earlier poem The Vision...

Look up Columbiad or columbiad in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A columbiad is a type of gun from the 19th century, a large-caliber muzzle-loading cannon...

sharpshooters. The Confederates mounted four 10-inch (250 mm) columbiads, one 8-inch (200 mm) columbiad rifled, and two rifled 42-pounders, in the left face,...

society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun and launch three people — the Gun Club's president, his Philadelphian...

installation at Disneyland Paris had a steampunk-detailed appearance with a Columbiad Cannon and a plate-and-rivet exterior under its previous theme. It is...

Columbiad is a solo modern dance choreographed by Martha Graham to music by Louis Horst. Edythe Gilfond designed the costume; Philip Stapp created the...

Two ten-inch Columbiads at the South Battery guard Charleston Harbor (1863)...

The Rodman gun is any of a series of American Civil War–era columbiads designed by Union artilleryman Thomas Jackson Rodman (1815–1871). The guns were...

mission insignia. At Scheer's suggestion, the CM was named Columbia after Columbiad, the giant cannon that launched a spacecraft (also from Florida) in Jules...

rifles (which were eventually pulled from inventory) or the early Columbiads. Columbiads continued in operation until after the Spanish–American War when...

Two 10" Columbiads guarding the Battery in 1863....

sharpshooters. The Confederates mounted four 10-inch (250 mm) columbiads, one 8-inch (200 mm) columbiad rifled, and two rifled 42-pounders, in the left face,...

Collins was also influenced to accept the name because of its similarity to Columbiad, the name of the space gun in Jules Verne's 1865 science fiction novel...

The sea face of Wagner was armed with one 32 lb. carronade, one 10-inch Columbiad, and two 12 lb. howitzers. The garrison of Battery Wagner consisted of...

fort's arsenal included fourteen cannons, the largest a 10-inch (250 mm) Columbiad that fired a 128-pound shell. It was a large structure capable of sheltering...

A diagram of the Columbiad gun, 15 of which were present at Fort McRee at the outbreak of the Civil War. There were the heaviest form of artillery available...

Earth to the Moon, the spacecraft to the Moon was fired from a giant Columbiad cannon. In part, the more frequent usage of the name "Columbia" reflected...

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goal of a Moon landing. In 1880, The Pall Mall Gazette described Verne’s Columbiad as a "space-ship" — the first recorded use of this term. The concept of...

earthworks, defenses and installing 3 large guns (1 ten-inch and 2 eight-inch columbiads), the installation of which was overseen by General Robert E. Lee's eldest...

50-pounder Model 1811 Columbiad (7.25 inch or 184 mm bore) and center-pivot mounting designed by George Bomford as an experimental coastal defense gun...

and memorials, with a largely military theme. In July 1897, two 10-inch columbiads that had been stored at Fort Sumter after the American Civil War, were...

Displacement 180 long tons (183 t) Length 80 ft (24 m) Beam 22 ft 8 in (6.91 m) Draft 8 ft (2.4 m) Propulsion Sails Armament 1 × 10 in (250 mm) columbiad...

Telescope of the Rocky Mountains", built for the purpose of tracking the Columbiad projectile on her flight to the Moon. Longs Peak from Road as photographed...

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the 1902 film A Trip to the Moon. Having been fired out of the giant Columbiad space gun, the Baltimore Gun Club's bullet-shaped projectile, along with...

spacecraft, but NASA did not allow it. The crew would have likely chosen Columbiad, the name of the giant cannon that launches a space vehicle in Jules Verne's...

of Science Fiction called Cavorite "much more fanciful" than Verne's Columbiad cannon. The Intellectuals and the Masses hypothesizes that the disaster...