A central processor, or CPU, handles basic instructions and allocates the more complicated tasks to other specific chips to get them to do what they do...

This is an electrical typewriter from 1988 manufactured by IBM. You use the keyboard to type in what you want the typewrite to type for you. The text can...

This is the sound that comes of the scanner in the office-part of the Museum, whenever someone from the personel uses it. The scanner is a Ricoh MP C3003. Photo...

Up until the 1880s the process of preparing a text for printing with a printing press was slow and time-consuming. Prior to the introduction of line casting...

Up until the 1880s the process of preparing a text for printing with a printing press was slow and time-consuming. Prior to the introduction of line casting...

In the audio you can hear the steady high pitched alarm sound of a malfunctioning elevator of The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas. The sound can also be...

A mechanical calculator, or calculating machine, was a mechanical device used to perform automatically the basic operations of arithmetic. Most mechanical...

As a part of the museum new purchase of chairs for conference uses it choose to give away the old ones to those industrial museums that exists all around...

This is the sound of a fluorescent office lamp, here at the museum. It has two modes, the first one is light straight down towards the desk whilst the...

This is a portable typewriter designed in 1965 as portable typewriter, and manufactured during the late 60s and and then into the 1970s by Olivetti - but...

This is an office device which cuts paper the way you want it - but it is also used by many other professions, such as bookbinders. Photo and recording...

The paternoster is a disappearing species among elevators. Other than most elevators it runs in a circle. It never stops. Passengers can hop on and off...