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Andreas Friedrich Bauer
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Born (1783-08-18)18 August 1783
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:

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 240 480 800 1100 2000 2400

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