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 sound of a pneumatic chainsaw being used in a coalmine. It was manufactured by the German company Dolmer around 1989. The pneumatic chainsaw is used...

Manufactured at the Prvomajska factory in Zagreb in 1956, it remained in use in the old locomotive workshops in Ljubljana until 1999. It is located in...

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....

The sound of a pneumatic pick hammer hacking into the coalface. It was manufactured by Ravne Ironworks in 2005. It is used as modern replacement for the...

The sound of a pneumatic pump used to spray liquid concrete. Manufactured by the Meyco Machine and Tool Inc., California, USA, in 1998. This method of...

The sound of a pneumatic traction unit in operation. It was manufactured by the Czech Brano Group in 2000. It is indispensable to mining operations because...