Andreas Friedrich Bauer
Andreas Friedrich Bauer monument in Würzburg
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:
| 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] |
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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