2015, the Hydraulic Press Channel, a YouTube channel dedicated to crushing objects with a hydraulic press, was created by Lauri Vuohensilta, a factory owner from Tampere, Finland. The Hydraulic Press Channel has since grown to over 3 million subscribers on YouTube. There are numerous other YouTube channels that publish videos involving hydraulic presses that are tasked with crushing many different items, such as bowling balls, soda cans, plastic toys and metal tools. A hydraulic press features prominently in the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb". See also Universal testing machine References External links Hydraulic machinery Press tools Machine tools Metalworking tools