1614 total sounds
  • Lacemaking – pushing

    Pins are pushed down on the pillow. Lace is an openwork fabric, patterned with open holes in the work, made by machine or by hand. Lace is often made...
  • Pins used for lacemaking

    This is the sound of pins being selected for the needle work. Lace is an openwork fabric, patterned with open holes in the work, made by machine or...
  • Driving force

    This driving force was located in the Turners’ Hall of the Compagnie des Bronzes, in Brussels, and would date from the late 19th century. It operated...
  • Sharing the Christmas wafer (opłatek)

    The sound of breaking of the Christmas wafer (opłatek) by the employees of the Museum of Municipal Engineering in Cracow (Poland). Breaking of the Christmas...
  • Wood Stove Sauna

    The sauna forms an integral part of Finnish Christmas celebrations. One should visit the sauna in the afternoon of the Eve, before Christmas dinner. The...
  • Angel chimes

    The Swedish sound of Christmas? Angel chimes are a form of Christmas decoration popular in Europe and North America. Angel chimes have candle holders at...
  • Santa’s Toy factory

    Animated electric Christmas decoration, the Toy factory lights up and plays jingle bells. Video and sound recordist : Gaëlle Courtois / La Fonderie,...
  • 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....
  • Overhead monorail (Wuppertal Suspension Railway) – inside

    The overhead monorail, type GTW 72 (also known as the Wuppertal Suspension Railway), was built by Maschinenfabrik Augsburg- Nürnberg (MAN) in the 1970s...
  • Overhead monorail (Wuppertal Suspension Railway)

    The overhead monorail, type GTW 72 (also known as the Wuppertal Suspension Railway), was built by Maschinenfabrik Augsburg- Nürnberg (MAN) in the 1970s...
  • 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...
  • Forging of hammer heads

    The recorded working noises here are the sounds made by the production of forging-hammer heads in the tool company Krenzer Hammer. It is the last open-die...