Columbiad

And you'd be right: in Verne's "From the Earth to the Moon" a giant cannon called the Columbiad was used to propel three of the characters in the story to the Moon.

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Verne's cannon was named the Columbiad; the Apollo 11 command module was named Columbia.

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It is needless to say that the first visitors of the Columbiad were the members of the Gun Club.

From the Earth to the Moon 2003

Blomsberry, Major Elphinstone, General Morgan, and the rest of the lot to whom the casting of the Columbiad was a matter of personal interest.

From the Earth to the Moon 2003

The Columbiad is a myth, and we know no agent, natural or artificial, at the present time on the earth, adequate to the production of a velocity so appalling.

The Story of the Heavens 1876

The Columbiad is a patriotic poem; the subject is national and historical.

The Columbiad Joel Barlow 1783

Barlow left him out of the "Columbiad," to the great disgust of Clio

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

"Columbiad," however, declined this hazardous commission, possibly because he was unwilling to stand sponsor for the malicious recitals that afterwards saw light in the pages of the "Anas."

John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court Edward Samuel Corwin 1920

A book with charges against Joel Barlow and Aaron Burr could hardly fail of that, though the said Joel Barlow is not the poet-diplomat who wrote the "Columbiad" and shone in European courts, nor Aaron Burr the corrupter of Blennerhassett and the slayer of Alexander Hamilton.

Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

Barlow, Joel, place of his "Columbiad" in modern printing, 10.

The Booklover and His Books Harry Lyman Koopman 1898