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== Gallery == {{cleanup gallery|date=April 2025}} <gallery> File:The Great Floyd Gun, cast at the Fort Pitt Foundry, Pittsburgh.png|The 15-inch Rodman Gun (better known as the [[John B. Floyd|Floyd]] Gun) in 1860 at the Fort Pitt Foundry, Pittsburg, Pa. file:Rodman gun va.jpg|Photograph of the 15-inch Rodman gun at [[Battery Rodgers]], Alexandria, Virginia. file:RodmanNPSImage14.jpg|Another photograph of the 15-inch Rodman gun at Battery Rodgers. This photograph gives an excellent view of the elevation mechanism and the center-pintle carriage. file:Rodman gun - Centennial Exposition - 1876 - Project Gutenberg eText 14333.jpg|20-inch Rodman gun at the [[Centennial Exposition]] in [[Philadelphia]], 1876. Hollow casting and the large guns that could be produced using the method were considered showpieces of American technology. file:8inch.jpg|8-inch Rodman converted rifles at [[Fort McHenry]], Maryland. They are mounted on post-war front pintle carriages. file:RodmanRatchet.jpg|Photograph of [[cascabel (artillery)|cascabel]] of an 8-inch Rodman converted rifle at [[Fort McHenry]] showing elevation ratchets used in earliest guns and the ratchet post. file:RodmanSocket.JPG|Photograph of [[cascabel (artillery)|cascabel]] of an 8-inch Rodman converted rifle at [[Fort McHenry]] showing elevation sockets used in later guns. The ratchet post is missing on this gun. file:Barbette FrontPintleIron.jpg|Period drawing of Rodman gun on a front-pintle barbette carriage file:200pdrParrott.jpg|Period photograph of [[Battery Rodgers]] [[Alexandria, Virginia]] showing a 15-inch Rodman gun mounted on a center-pintle barbette carriage (rear) and an [[Siege artillery in the American Civil War#8-inch (200-pounder) Parrott rifle|8-inch (200-pounder) Parrott rifle]] mounted on a front-pintle barbette carriage (front). The 8-inch Parrott rifle used the same carriage as the 10-inch Rodman gun. file:CenterPintel Rodman Carriage Iron.jpg|Period drawing of Rodman gun on a center-pintle barbette carriage. file:15inRodmanFtMonroe.jpg|Period photograph of a 15-inch Rodman gun mounted on a center-pintle barbette carriage at [[Fort Monroe]], Virginia. file:Casemate carriage for Columbiad.jpg|Period drawing of a Rodman gun on a casemate carriage. file:FortKnoxCannon.JPG|Photograph of a Rodman gun on a casemate carriage in [[Fort Knox (Maine)|Fort Knox, Maine]]. file:CScolumbiadsYorktown.jpg|8-inch Confederate columbiads at [[Battle of Yorktown (1862)|Yorktown, Virginia]]. file:CS8inColumbiadFtMcAllister.jpg|Union troops removing an 8-inch Confederate columbiad from [[Battle of Fort McAllister (1864)|Fort McAllister, Georgia]]. file:CScolumbiadFtDarling.jpg|10-inch Confederate columbiad at [[Fort Darling|Fort Darling, Virginia]]. file:Rodman Gun (1).jpg|20-inch Rodman gun at [[John Paul Jones Park]] near [[Fort Hamilton]], Brooklyn, New York. File:Fort Clinch State Park, Florida, US (77).jpg|Rodman guns at [[Fort Clinch]], Florida </gallery>
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