Dahlgren gun
Cañón Dahlgren
- Date
- c. 1850-1861 · confidence medium
- Place
- Washington D.C., United States
- Credited to
- John Adolphus Dahlgren
- Field
- Conflict
What it is
Smoothbore naval guns with a distinctive curved profile that concentrates more metal at the breech to better withstand propellant gas pressure, designed by John A. Dahlgren after a 1849 accident and widely used by the Union Navy in the Civil War.
What it led to
- Standardization of Union naval artillery in the Civil War
- Improved safety and power of naval guns
- Influence on later naval artillery design