Andreas Friedrich Bauer

German engineer

Andreas Friedrich Bauer monument in Würzburg

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.[1]

Born in Stuttgart, Bauer joined Koenig in 1817 to found Koenig & Bauer at the Oberzell monastery near Würzburg.

## Printing capacity

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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]

## References

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1. ^ a b Bolza 1967, p. 83
2. ^ Wolf 1974, pp. 67f.
3. ^ Bolza 1967, p. 80
4. ^ Bolza 1967, p. 87
5. ^ a b Bolza 1967, p. 88

## Sources

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* Bolza, Hans (1967), "Friedrich Koenig und die Erfindung der Druckmaschine", Technikgeschichte, 34 (1): 79–8979-89&rft.date=1967&rft.aulast=Bolza&rft.aufirst=Hans&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Andreas+Friedrich+Bauer" class="Z3988">
* Wolf, Hans-Jürgen (1974), Geschichte der Druckpressen (1st ed.), Frankfurt/Main: Interprint

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