We believe we have found the oldest testing machine in India. Regional Sales Manager John Bromley-Barratt and our local distributor, Aimil, found this hidden treasure at Anna University, Chennai. The machine seen here is a one of the Tinius Olsen Little Giant series and was installed in 1904; the machine was originally operated manually (electricity wasn’t commercially available at that time) and employed a lever based weighing system to determine applied loads. This machine was upgraded with an electric motor at some point in the past, and is still in regular use today for teaching students the principles of mechanical testing.

Anna University in India is one of the most reputed and highly rated universities in the field of academic and research. One of the colleges of Anna University, College of Engineering, Guindy (1794), is the very proud owner of this machine.

Further to the popular webinar that we held with Plastics Technology magazine, the editors of the magazine asked us to  develop the webinar into a printed article to be published in the September issue of the magazine. Click here to see a copy of the article.