(Civil War) 20-inch Rodman Gun.- Model 1861 #Tibet Notes many key buildings throughout

Notes many key buildings throughout

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

and the attention to detail is astounding

25 x 36 (inches)

reaching from the southern Solomon islands

(Civil War) 20-inch Rodman Gun.- Model 1861 #Tibet Notes many key buildings throughout(Civil War) 20 inch Rodman Gun. Model 1861, McClelland U. S. Govt., c. 1861 Only 2 were ever made, in 1864, and both survive to today. It is the largest muzzle loading smooth bore cannon ever made and could shoot over 8,000 yards. On its first tests the twenty foot long cannon took a one hundred pound powder charge and sent a cannon ball over three miles away, landing in the sea after several bounces to make a splash taller than the ships of the time.