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. 1 2 Bolza 1967, p. 83
  2. ↑ Wolf 1974, pp. 67f.
  3. ↑ Bolza 1967, p. 80
  4. ↑ Bolza 1967, p. 87
  5. 1 2 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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