107 sounds by Konrad Gutkowski
  • Steelwork: Cooling zone

    On the recording one can hear the cooling zone in the hot rolling mill of the Stahlwerk (steelworks) of Thyssen-Krupp in Duisburg. In the hot rolling mill...
  • Steelwork: Hot rolling

    The hot rolling of crude steel billets in the hot rolling mill of the Stahlwerk (steelworks) of Thyssen-Krupp in Duisburg can be heard on the recording. In...
  • Steelwork: Sizing press

    On the recording, a sizing press can be heard processing crude steel billets in the hot rolling mill of the Stahlwerk (steelworks) of Thyssen-Krupp in...
  • Steelwork: Pusher furnace and conveying system

    The pusher furnace is in use at the hot rolling mill in the Stahlwerk (steelworks) of Thyssen-Krupp in Duisburg. In the hot rolling mill the so-called...
  • Steelwork: Tapping of a blast furnace

    On the recording one can hear the work process of a blast furnace (year of construction 1963, modernized in 2013) at Thyssen-Krupp Steelworks being tapped. In...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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....
  • Loom

    This mostly metal loom was built around 1930 and is a product of Jean Güsken GmbH, based in Dülken. The loom is equipped on both sides with a four-box...
  • Wire weaving loom

    The wire weaving loom heard here was made in 1949. It was one of the first built by the company Emil Jäger from Hamm. Up until 1995 the wire weaving loom...