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The name was chosen to evoke the famous German Big Bertha howitzer. The original Big Bertha driver was launched in 1991. At the time, its design was considered highly modern and a radical departure from older drivers: it was crafted entirely of stainless steel and the head had a volume of 190 cm 3 (12 cu in).
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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 ...
A muscle back is the more traditional design and consists of a solid metal head, typically made of forged iron. The design of the club typically distributes the metal more evenly around the clubhead (though most designs still place more weight along the sole of the club), which makes the center of mass of the club higher and the moment of inertia (the clubhead's resistance to rotation) lower ...
Delete any wedges you don't want; To place a wedge, make a duplicate of any of the wedges to the left or right of the actual wheel. Take this duplicate and center it to the page (it should be in the correct spot) To place the next wedge, highlight the entire wheel and its wedges, rotate 15° to place the next wedge (repeat steps 4 and 5 until ...
Big Bertha (lunar sample), the third largest lunar rock collected by the Apollo program during Apollo 14; 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
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English: Diagram of barrel and breech of British RBL 12 pounder 8 cwt field gun. This shows the "New Model" with the short 72-inch barrel. A : Barrel inner tube : originally of wrought-iron; made of steel in later 72-inch barrels. B, C, D : wrough-iron coils; E : Tappet-ring; L : Lever-ring; P : Breech-piece : forging of wrought-iron; S ...