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