A columbiad is a type of gun from the 19th century, a large-caliber muzzle-loading cannon capable of firing at low and high angles
Columbiad may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
edit- The Columbiad, an epic poem about the founding of the United States of America
- Columbiad, the fictional astronaut-launching space gun created by Jules Verne for From the Earth to the Moon
- Columbiad (ballet), a ballet that debuted in 1939
- "Columbiad" (short story), a 1996 science fiction story by Stephen Baxter, republished in 1997 in Year's Best SF 2 multi-author anthology collection, and in 1998 in Stephen Baxter's anthology collection Traces (book)
Other uses
edit- Columbiad (spacecraft), the informal name of the Apollo 8 space capsule
- Columbiad (journal), A Quarterly Review of the War Between the States [1997 to 2000 - 13 issues]
See also
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