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Andreas Friedrich Bauer
Born	(1783-08-18)18 August 1783 Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Died	27 December 1860(1860-12-27) (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.

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:

References

1. ^ Bolza 1967, p. 83
2. Wolf 1974, pp. 67f.
3. Bolza 1967, p. 80
4. Bolza 1967, p. 87
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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