High-Speed Printing Press by Friedrich Gottlob Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer. 1812. Collection: Deutches Museum, Munich
Friedrich Gottlob Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, who invented the world's first high-speed printing press, were could not interest anyone in their native Germany in their invention, and so took it to England. In 1814 they sold it to The Times of London, thus initiating the age of mass media.
