An old engraving of a rotary belt-driven, web printing press of the mechanical engineering company MAN (Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nurnberg), from the 1860s. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. MAN is one of Germany’s major engineering companies. The company’s principal areas of innovation have been in the manufacture of printing presses and diesel engines. The company began with the manufacture of flat-bed presses in 1845.


An old engraving of a rotary belt-driven, web printing press of the mechanical engineering company MAN (Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nurnberg), from the 1860s. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. MAN is one of Germany’s major engineering companies. The company’s principal areas of innovation have been in the manufacture of printing presses and diesel engines. The company began with the manufacture of flat-bed presses in 1845.


Size: 4724px × 3000px
Location: Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany
Photo credit: © M&N / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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