Exploring the Colossal Big Bertha A Monumental Engineering Feat

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. Popularly named after Alfred Krupp's daughter, the 41.3-ton, 420mm “Big Bertha” had a horizontal sliding block and fired a 1,719-pound shell up ... In 1991, Callaway Golf introduced a golf club that set the industry on its ear. At 190cc, the oversized Big Bertha Driver (named, appropriately after a World ... 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 was born in 1922,” UT Alumni Band member and Big Bertha Expert JP Kirksey said. “The drum was originally built for the University of ... 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 ... In 1912, his company had built a weapon that could fire large shells over 16,000 feet ... Big Bertha had made a name for herself in the history of war. Now, we're going to look at the man who made it big, really big, when he created Big Bertha. The man, of course, is Eli Callaway. The university's five-foot-tall bass drum (known colloquially as a “Big Bertha” drum) has been refurbished and returned to service on campus. “Big Bertha has a storied history with the Longhorn Band,” the press release states. “She traveled to the Rose Bowl, and in 2015, she was ...