High Speed Printing Press

High speed printing press machine

While Gutenburg had created the hand press long before, it's output was a meager 240 pages an hour. The creation of the steam powered high speed printing press by Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Bauer in 1812 was a technological leap in production able to print double sided sheets at 1,100 an hour. After no interest was shown in his home country of Germany Koenig found success in England with the The Times in London. In 1814 the Koenig-Bauer printing press was used to publish The Times five times faster than it had before.  

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The end of the month Winter 1814