In the coal mixer of the colliery Prosper-Haniel (Ruhrkohle AG) the mined coal is mixed in order to provide a consistent quality of coal for further uses....

In the coal mixer of the colliery Prosper-Haniel (Ruhrkohle AG) the mined coal is mixed in order to provide a consistent quality of coal for further uses....

The conveyor belt, which is driven by an electric motor, is located at the exit of the inclined conveyance heading of the Prosper-Haniel colliery. It...

When mining coal or other minerals took the miners ever deeper into the ground, it became necessary to ventilate the shaft, in other words to supply sufficient...

The pneumatically driven hammer drill by the manufacturer Flottmann-Werke drills holes into soft or medium-hard rock (for detonations, for example). It...

The hoist, which was built cooperatively by the Gutenhoffnungshütte (GHH) and the company AEG (construction by GHH, Elektrik: AEG) in the 1980s, is in...

The mine telephone made by the company Funke & Huster GmbH has been installed in the shaft-hall of the LWL-Industrial Museum Zollern Colliery since 1990....

The pneumatic lamp presumably was used in the Ruhr-area coal mining industry as an underground source of light in the 1940s. Today it belongs to the LWL-Industrial...

The pneumatic pick (manufacturer unknown) is an air tool which was presumably used for breaking up coal in the Ruhr-area mining industry in the 1950s....

Funke & Huster's signal bell was used in the Ewald Colliery in Herten (Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia) in the 1980s. Since 1990 it has been located...