Andreas Friedrich Bauer (18 August 1783 – 27 December 1860) was a

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who developed the first functional steam-powered

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with his colleague

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, who had invented the technology and sold it to ''

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in 1814. Born in

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, Bauer joined Koenig in 1817 to found Koenig & Bauer at the Oberzell monastery near

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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:

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* * 19th-century German inventors 1783 births 1860 deaths {{Germany-engineer-stub