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Award of Patent 213,586

When: June 1, 1880
Where: Grant location not stated in supplied passages; Philadelphia is Olsen's residence and death place only
Part of: Tinius Olsen awarded a US patent for the Little Giant Testing Machine

Tinius Olsen received US Patent # 213,586, titled 'Improvement In Testing Machines', on June 1, 1880, following a submission earlier that year. The grant location is not stated in the supplied passages.

Olsen submitted the application in 1880, and the patent was granted on June 1, 1880. The patent is titled 'Improvement In Testing Machines' and is numbered 213,586. The supplied passages do not state where the patent was granted; Philadelphia is supported only as Olsen's residence and the place of his 1932 death, not as the grant location. The name 'Little Giant Testing Machine' is not attested in the supplied passages.

Sources

Tinius Olsen Wikipedia, revision of 2026-03-17

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