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The nickname "Big Bertha" appeared early in the war, when German soldiers named the guns Dicke Berta at the Battle of Liège, a reference to Bertha Krupp, who had inherited the Krupp works from her father. The name spread to German newspapers and then to Allied troops as "Big Bertha" and became slang for all heavy German artillery, but ...
German Artillery of World War Two. Greenhill Books. ISBN 978-1-85367-480-8. Kinard, Jeff (2007). Artillery: An Illustrated History of Its Impact. ABC-Clio. ISBN 9781851095612. Romanych, Marc & Rupp, Martin (2013). 42cm "Big Bertha" and German Siege Artillery of World War I. Illustrated by Henry Morshead. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78096-017-3.
German Big Bertha howitzer The Paris Gun being assembled Model of the Paris Gun on fixed mounting. A section of the Iraqi supergun from Imperial War Museum Duxford. With the new metallurgical methods and precision engineering of the Industrial Revolution, a revolution in armaments, including artillery took place.
They were the largest pieces of artillery used during the war by barrel length, and qualify under the (later) formal definition of large-calibre artillery. Also called the " Kaiser Wilhelm Geschütz " (" Kaiser Wilhelm Gun"), they were often confused with Big Bertha , the German howitzer used against Belgian forts in the Battle of Liège in ...
Friedrich Alfred Krupp's heir was his daughter Bertha Krupp (Big Bertha artillery is named for her) who married Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach and whose eight children had the last name Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach.
Early 15th-century Flemish giant cannon Dulle Griet at Ghent (caliber of 660 mm). This list contains all types of cannon through the ages listed in decreasing caliber size. For the purpose of this list, the development of large-calibre artillery can be divided into three periods, based on the kind of projectiles used, due to their dissimilar characteristics, and being practically ...
Bertha Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (born Bertha Krupp; 29 March 1886 – 21 September 1957) was a member of the Krupp family, Germany's leading industrial dynasty of the 19th and 20th centuries. [1] As the elder child and heir of Friedrich Alfred Krupp she was the sole proprietor of the Krupp industrial empire from 1902 to 1943, although her ...
Bertha Heyman, a.k.a. "Big Bertha", a 19th-century criminal; Big Bertha (cow), a cow that broke two Guinness World Records, for being both the oldest and having the most offspring; Big Bertha (golf club), a line of golf clubs from Callaway Golf; Big Bertha (drum), one of the world's largest bass drums; IBM T220/T221 LCD monitors, nicknamed Big ...