Andreas Friedrich Bauer

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Andreas Friedrich Bauer (August 18, 1783 – December 27, 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.

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

↑ 1.0 1.1 Bolza 1967, p. 83
↑ Wolf 1974, pp. 67f.
↑ Bolza 1967, p. 80
↑ Bolza 1967, p. 87
↑ 5.0 5.1 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	18 August 1783
Place of birth	Stuttgart
Date of death	27 December 1860
Place of death	Würzburg

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