This was manufactured in the Atlas plant, Germany, probably before World War Two. There are no records available on when it started being used in the old...

Manufactured at the Prvomajska factory in Zagreb in 1956, it remained in use in the old locomotive workshops in Ljubljana until 1999. It is located in...

Since the 1920s the electric tumbling barrel was used in the chain factory to smoothen the surfaces of the finished welded or forged chains. For a number...

The electric hand welding machine from the 1920s welds single chain links together. The welder must place a “U” shaped chain link into the clamping...

The sound of the machine for performing control copies in operation. It was manufactured by the Prasa company in Katowice (Poland) in 1967. The sound of...

The electrically driven chain bending machine from the 1950s produces chains by straightening wire (removal of deformation of the wire due to winding on...

The sound of matrices returning to the storing unit in linotype N-14, manufactured in Leningrad (Soviet Union) in 1968. The sound of the machine was recorded...

The sound of the casting of lines on linotype N-14, manufactured in Leningrad (Soviet Union) in 1968. The sound of the machine was recorded in the Printing...

The electric link bending machine made in 1939 by the manufacturer Malmedie & Co., produces single chain links. First, a wire is unwound from a coil and...

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 rod cutter from the 1920s cuts approximately 3m long steel rods into accurately dimensioned pieces, called “pins” which can then be bent into chain...

Up until its shutdown in 1983 the Sawmill Remblinghausen in Meschede (North Rhine-Westphalia) manufactured wooden handles for brooms and rakes using the...