ression followed. As was the case in
England, the introduction of the printing machine in Germany excited
considerable hostility among the pressmen. In some of the principal
towns they entered into combinations to destroy them, and several
printing machines were broken by violence and irretrievably injured.
But progress could not be stopped; the printing machine had been fairly
born, and must eventually do its work for mankind. These combinations,
however, had an effect for a time. They deterred other printers from
giving orders for the machines; and Koenig and Bauer were under the
necessity of suspending their manufacture to a considerable extent. To
keep their men employed, the partners proceeded to fit up a paper
manufactory, Mr. Cotta, of Stuttgart, joining them in the adventure;
and a mill was fitted up, embodying all the latest improvements in
paper-making.

Koenig, however, did not live to enjoy the fruits or all his study,
labour, toil, and anxiety; for, while this enterprise was still in
progress, and before the machine trade had revived, he was taken ill,
and confined to bed. He became sleepless; his nerves were unstrung;
and no wonder. Brain disease carried him off on the 17th of January,
1833; and this good, ingenious, and admirable inventor was removed from
all further care and trouble.

He died at the early age of fifty-eight, respected and beloved by all
who knew him.

His partner Bauer survived to continue the business for twenty years
longer. It was during this later period that the Oberzell manufactory
enjoyed its greatest prosperity. The prejudices of the workmen
gradually subsided when they found that machine printing, instead of
abridging employment, as they feared it would do, enormously increased
it; and orders accordingly flowed in from Berlin, Vienna, and all the
leading towns and cities of Germany, Austria, Denmark, Russia, and
Sweden. The six hundredth machine, turned out in 1847, was capable of
printing 6000 impressions in the hour. In March, 1865, the thousandth
machine was completed at Oberzell, on the occasion of the celebration
of the fifty years' jubilee of the invention of the steam press by
Koenig.

The sons of Koenig carried on the business; and in the biography by
Goebel, it is stated that the manufactory of Oberzell has now turned
out no fewer than 3000 printing machines. The greater number have been
supplied to Germany; but 660 were sent to Russia, 61 to Asia, 12 t