Big Bertha
Big Bertha is a euphonious term for an unusually large example of a class of object; notable examples include:
Military guns:
- Big Bertha (howitzer), a heavy mortar-like howitzer built and used by Germany during World War I
- Paris Gun, called Big Bertha by the French, and several other big heavy German guns of World War I
Vehicles:
- MR 0-10-0 Lickey Banker, a large railway banking engine, especially of a 0-10-0 steam locomotive configuration
- A special version of the Vauxhall Victor automobile
- Big Bertha (bomb disposal vehicle), a police truck used by the New York Police Department and also called the LaGuardia-Pyke Bomb Truck
Fictional characters:
- Big Bertha (comics), a member of the Great Lakes Avengers in Marvel Comics
- Big Bertha (Sanctuary), an "abnormal" in the Sanctuary television series
- Big Bertha, an enemy character that appears in Super Mario Bros. 3
Other uses:
- 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
- Big Bertha (antenna tower), a self supporting fully rotating antenna tower originally made by Telrex Labs and now made by SuperBertha.com LLC
- IBM T220/T221 LCD monitors, nicknamed Big Bertha, LCD monitors with a native resolution of 3840×2400 pixels
- Bertha (tunnel boring machine), nicknamed Big Bertha, a tunnel boring machine made by Hitachi Zosen Corporation for operation in Seattle
- La Grosse Bertha (French for "Big Bertha"), a French satirical magazine
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 6/12/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.