Beyond the Battlefield The Wider Impact of 'Big Bertha'

Big Bertha is the oldest Earth rock ever discovered, and it was found on the Moon, among the samples returned from the Apollo 14 mission. In 1994, oversized Big Bertha irons joined the party and a year after that the Great Big Bertha driver was released, in all of its 253cc glory. Big Bertha is the worlds largest tunnel boring machine at a length of 300 feet and a height of five stories. Big Bertha weighs 7,000 tons. It's believed that Big Bertha and rocks like it formed on the Moon about 4 billion years ago, in the aftermath of an incredible asteroid impact. ' It comes from an Army inventory document which shows that the wagon was in the inventory of the museum in 1952 (and then gone in 1955). The ... The term "Big Bertha" comes from Bertha Krupp, the sole owner of the company who manufactured the popular German WW1 "big bertha" siege howitzer cannon. The mascot of this quickstepping pep club was Big Bertha, the world's biggest bass drum (unless you're a Purdue grad), purchased in 1955 for a buck from the ... Our copy of it is the BNC-60LV which is slightly different from other BNC-60L nose cones from the early days. The later Berthas replaced the ... Big Bertha was a German siege howitzer built by Krupp AG in Essen, Germany and fielded by the Imperial German Army from 1914 to 1918. "BIG BERTHA" resulted in the destruction of the Kaunas Fortress with its powerful 17-inch artillery shell. It's the largest artillery piece ever ...