Andreas Friedrich Bauer

Andreas Friedrich Bauer (August 18, 1783 – 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, Germany, 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:

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

References

^ ^a ^b Bolza 1967, p. 83
^ Wolf 1974, pp. 67f.
^ Bolza 1967, p. 80
^ Bolza 1967, p. 87
^ ^a ^b 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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Name	Bauer, Andreas Friedrich
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Date of birth	August 18, 1783
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Date of death	1860
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