The sound of steel hardening after pilgrim rolling. After the termination of pilgrim rolling, certain alloys have to be air-cooled in steps based on rolling...

ALBI Maschinenfabrik, Alber&Bitzer GmbH Co. KG, Germany Model RFH10795 Circular knitting machine that works with electricity and produces woolsilk...

ALBI Maschinenfabrik, Alber&Bitzer GmbH Co. KG, Tailfingen, Germany Model: ROJ3, Machine number: 4264 Circular knitting machine that works with electricity...

The sound of weft winder in operation was recorded in the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź (Poland). Automatic four-point weft winder is intended...

This machine was owned by the Facit company in Åtvidaberg. At the peak there were about 100 machines of this kind with different manufactures and one...

Axe grinder at the axe smithy at Hults bruk, Norrköping, Sweden. From the company web page: Our axes are forged by hand. They have been crafted in...

Forge press at the axe smithy at Hults bruk, Norrköping, Sweden. This recording was made with a close mono mic at the first stage of the process. The...

Battery operated transfer car brings CTMP-bales (=Chemo Thermo Mechanical Pulp -bales) to the chain transporter. Bales move automatically to the pulper...

The beaming machine of the type W. Schlafhorst & Co. from 1939 was used in the textile industry. This machine develops warp beams for the warp threads....

Start, run and stop. Flat belts were widely used in the 19th and early 20th centuries in line shafting to transmit power in factories. A belt is a loop...

This electrically driven machine from the 1920s bends cut-to-size steel rods, the so called “pins”, into the shape of a “U”. A worker puts the...

The sound of a billet being descaled. Shot blasting machines are used for descaling billets in readiness for the next operation, which is rolling. Descaling...