Crank wheel
In the Sawmill Remblinghausen (Meschede, North Rhine-Westphalia) this crank wheel device has been used to open and close the drainage of the…
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Francis turbine
The Francis turbine is a water turbine which was developed in the USA by the engineer James B. Francis (1815-1892). It is…
Manual cardboard cutter machine, so called papszera
The sound of cutting paper sheets on manual cardboard cutter machine. The sound of the machine was recorded in the Printing Museum…
Horizontal gang saw
The horizontal gang saw, produced by the machine factory A. Goede in Berlin in 1908, currently stands in the Sawmill Remblinghausen (Germany,…
Paper Mill
The paper mill recorded from the visitors’ parking lot. This is the sound of the mill that most people perceive and it…
Automatic packing station
This is the sound of the automatic packing station where robots wrap the bales of paper in packaging. The rattling sound originates…
PM-52 Dryer section
At the far end of the large paper machine, the refined paper produce is rolled on to reels and dryed. It is…
Horizontal waterwheel
The Sawmill Remblinghausen in Meschede (Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia) has been using the horizontal steel-waterwheel for generating electric light since 1901. The water…
Pulp fan
Fans make out a large part of the paper mill’s soundscape. This Swedish made paper pulp fan, used to control the level…
Vacuum fan
Controlling the level of moist in the paper pulp is essential in paper making. Here you hear the sound of a combined…
Paper pulp recycling mill
Paper pulp recycling mill This mechanical mill recycles the left over material from the paper machine. All left over material is re…
PM52 – forming section
The sounds heard in this recording are coming from the forming section of Braviken paper mill’s PM52 – a large scale paper…
Pulp refiner
This german made pulp refiner, manufactured by Andritz Sprout-Bauer, processes and refines paper pulp. The pulp is produced by processing wood chips…
Maudslay engine
The Maudslay engine was the first beam engine built for the Kew Bridge works and began pumping in 1838. A beam engine…
Hathorn Davey triple expansion engine
Triple expansion engines use three expansion stages. The engines use a series of double-acting cylinders of progressively increasing diameter. These cylinders are…
Super 8 Movie Projector – Reverse
The Sankyo Sound 502 movie projector was bought in January 1979 in Brussels (10.900 Belgian francs). It was used to project Super…