Witness the Devastation Big Bertha, the Monstrous Mortar

Big Bertha has been a focal point of the Longhorn Band since 1955, and at 8-feet in diameter, 41 inches wide and 10 feet high, the drum remains a centerpiece ... In 1906 Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach had married Bertha Krupp. She was the great-granddaughter of the firm's founder Friedrich Krupp (1787-1826). With the ... Next in line for our Retro Review treatment is the 1994 Callaway Big Bertha irons. ... ever created. Bore-through shaft technology was ... In reality, 'Big Bertha" was but the last in a series of large-caliber siege guns designed by the German Army for the purpose of destroying concrete ... The 420-mm German mortar "Big Bertha", also known under another nickname - "Fat Bertha" (German name - Dicke Bertha). The 42 cm kurze Marinekanone 14 L/12 (short naval cannon), or Minenwerfer-Gerät (M-Gerät), popularly known by the nickname Big Bertha, was a German siege ... 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 ... 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. Big Bertha — The name of the heaviest siege guns ever built alludes to the Bertha Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach works in Essen. This large howitzer bombarded ... ' 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 ...