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.