Unveiling the Colossal 'Big Bertha' A Historical Giant

Big Bertha is the oldest cow to have lived. She died just 3 months short of her 49th birthday. In her lifetime, she managed to have 39 calves, and helped raise ... When the original Big Bertha was introduced by the German artillery during World War I, it required ten railway cars to move it into position to fire into enemy ... 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 ... “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 ... Big Bertha, Germany's World War I top secret mobile artillery piece, easily destroyed French and Belgian forts, helping set the stage for trench warfare. ... World War I. The guns were so called because they were specially built to shell Paris at a range, never before attained, of approximately 121 km (75 miles) ... During World War I, the German armaments manufacturer Krupp was tasked with creating deadly new weapons. This led to the creation of the 42 cm M-Gerät ... In 1922, Mr. Carl D. Greenleaf, an alum of the University of Chicago and president of C.G. Conn, Ltd., gave 100 instruments plus Big Bertha to ... 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 ... The university's five-foot-tall bass drum (known colloquially as a “Big Bertha” drum) has been refurbished and returned to service on campus.