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Andreas Friedrich Bauer

Andreas Friedrich Bauer

German 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]

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

Printing capacity

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:

More information Hand-operated presses, Steam-powered presses ...

References

  1. [1]
    Bolza 1967, p. 83
  2. [2]
    Wolf 1974, pp. 67f.
  3. [3]
    Bolza 1967, p. 80
  4. [4]
    Bolza 1967, p. 87
  5. [5]
    Bolza 1967, p. 88

Sources

  • 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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