Andreas Friedrich Bauer | |
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Born |
Stuttgart,
Baden-Württemberg, Germany | 18 August 1783
Died | 27 December 1860 | (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 | |||||
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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] |
Media related to
Andreas Friedrich Bauer at Wikimedia Commons
Andreas Friedrich Bauer | |
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![]() | |
Born |
Stuttgart,
Baden-Württemberg, Germany | 18 August 1783
Died | 27 December 1860 | (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] |
Media related to
Andreas Friedrich Bauer at Wikimedia Commons