Andreas Friedrich Bauer
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Template:Infobox person 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.<ref name="Bolza 1967, 83"/>
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<ref>Template:Harvnb</ref> | 480<ref>Template:Harvnb</ref> | 800<ref name="Bolza 1967, 83">Template:Harvnb</ref> | 1100<ref>Template:Harvnb</ref> | 2000<ref name="Bolza 1967, 88">Template:Harvnb</ref> | 2400<ref name="Bolza 1967, 88"/> |