16 sounds with tag Ruhr area
  • Bucket chain

    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....
  • Coal crane

    The coal crane built in 1946 was originally in use at the Bahnbetriebswerk (locomotive depot) Dahlhausen which ceased operation in 1968. It was used to...
  • Coal mixer

    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....
  • Diffuser

    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...
  • Hammer drill

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

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

    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....
  • Pneumatic lamp

    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...
  • Pneumatic pick

    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....
  • Steam engine (and signal bell)

    The steam engine, a product of the company Übigau in Dresden, is a three-cylinder compound engine with 55 horsepower. It is a component of the steamship...
  • Steam locomotive

    The steam locomotive “Anna No. 6” was built in 1940 in the Friedrich Krupp factories in Essen. Up until World War II it transported freight for the...
  • Steelwork: Coiler

    In a hot rolling mill the process of hot rolling is carried out, a metalworking process in steel production: rolling at high temperatures makes possible...