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German engineer

Andreas Friedrich Bauer monument in Würzburg

Andreas Friedrich Bauer

Born (1783-08-18)18 August 1783
Stuttgart

Baden-Württemberg

, Germany

Died 27 December 1860(1860-12-27) (aged 77) Nationality German Occupation Engineer

Andreas Friedrich Bauer (18 August 1783 – 27 December 1860) was a German engineer who developed the first functional steam-powered printing press with his colleague Friedrich Koenig, who had invented the technology and sold it to The Times in London in 1814.^[1]

Born in Stuttgart, Bauer joined Koenig in 1817 to found Koenig & Bauer at the Oberzell monastery near Würzburg.

The table lists the maximum number of pages which the various press designs of Koenig & Bauer could print per hour, compared to earlier hand-operated printing presses:

Hand-operated presses Steam-powered presses Gutenberg-style
ca. 1600 Stanhope
ca. 1800 Koenig & Bauer
1812 Koenig & Bauer
1813 Koenig & Bauer
1814 Koenig & Bauer
1818 Impressions per hour 240^[2] 480^[3] 800^[1] 1100^[4] 2000^[5] 2400^[5]

Bolza, Hans (1967), "Friedrich Koenig und die Erfindung der Druckmaschine", Technikgeschichte, 34 (1): 79–89
Wolf, Hans-Jürgen (1974), Geschichte der Druckpressen (1st ed.), Frankfurt/Main: Interprint

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