The original "hand rolled" mill
"The Forge of Vulcan" by Luca Giordano

Then came water powered trip hammers
"Venus at the Forge of Vulcan" Jan Brueghel the Younger of Antwerp, Belgium c. 1605

Right foreground

Still in use in Liege c. 1910

Saugus Iron Works
https://www.nps.gov/sair/learn/historyculture/rolling-and-slitting-mill.htm Then the man-powered and (later) steam powered rolling machines
Henry Cort's rolling machine, 1783
http://shropshirehistory.com/iron/iron_making.htm Sheet mills
http://www.metalworkingworldmagazine.com/a-short-sheet-metal-history/ "The Iron Rolling Mill", Adolph Menzel, "Modern Cyclops", 1875
