His first attempt at manufacturing firearms in Paterson, New Jersey, occurred during an economic crisis in the US leading to poor sales, and was further hampered by Colt's mismanagement and reckless spending.

When tensions with Great Britain prompted Congress to appropriate funds for Colt's project toward the end of 1841, he demonstrated his underwater mines to the US government.

In 1850 General Sam Houston and General Thomas Jefferson Rusk lobbied Secretary of War William Marcy and President James K. Polk to adopt Colt's revolvers for the US military.

This led to a massive grass-roots boycott of Colt's products by gun stores and US gun owners.

* Description of the Colt's Double-Action Revolver, Caliber. 45, Model of 1909, by US War Department, Office of the Chief of Ordnance, 1913

Savage was one of six companies to participate in the US Army trials for a. 45 caliber semi-automatic pistol, and was named one of the two finalists before losing out to Colt's design, which would become the M1911 pistol.

He was the founder of Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company ( now known as Colt's Manufacturing Company ), and made the mass-production of the revolver commercially viable for the first time.

After Colt fired White for suggesting an improvement to his revolver, White took his idea to Colt's competitor, Smith & Wesson, who patented his invention and kept Colt from being able to build cartridge firearms for almost 20 years.

Colt's earliest designs played a major role in the popularization of the revolver and the shift away from earlier single-shot pistols.

In 1855 an employee of Colt's, Rollin White, came up with the idea of having the revolver cylinder bored through to accept metallic cartridges.

Colt's first effort toward a metallic cartridge revolver was by conversion of existing percussion revolvers.

After working on these conversions, Mason began work on Colt's first metallic-cartridge revolver in 1871: the Colt open-top revolver.

After the success of the Colt Single Action Army and Colt's conversion of existing percussion revolvers to Richards-Mason conversions, Mason went on to design Colt's first Double-action revolver, the Colt M1877.

It was Colt's first large-frame, double-action revolver.

It was designed for the U. S. government service revolver trials of 1872 by Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company, today Colt's Manufacturing Company, and was adopted as the standard military service revolver until 1892.

Their effort was designed for the United States government service revolver trials of 1872 by Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company and adopted as the standard military service revolver.

The Colt Frontier or Frontier Six-Shooter was a Colt's 1873 " Model P " type revolver, manufactured in. 44-40 Winchester caliber instead of. 45 Colt ( in which configuration it was called the Single Action Army ), so as to be cross-compatible with Winchester Model 73 ammunition.

The Colt Python is a. 357 Magnum caliber revolver formerly manufactured by Colt's Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut.

The Colt Python was first introduced in 1955 as Colt's top-of-the-line model and was originally intended to be a large-frame 38 Special target revolver.

The. 45 Colt was a joint development between Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company, of Hartford, Connecticut, and the Union Metallic Cartridge Company of Bridgeport, Conn. Colt began work on the revolver in 1871, and submitted a sample to the U. S. Army in late 1872.

He was shot four times at close range in a hand-to-hand encounter by a. 38 Colt's revolver loaded with U. S. Army regulation ammunition.

Army Ordnance also purchased a number of M1902 Colt 45 revolvers ( The M1902 was actually Colt's New Double Action Army Model 1878, a. 45-caliber rod-ejector double-action revolver ) for issue to officers deploying overseas.

Production of Allen pepperboxes continued until the expiration of Colt's patent in 1857.

A key element to Colt's success was vigorous protection of his patent rights.

In each one of these cases, Colt's lawyer, Edward N. Dickerson, deftly exploited the patent system and successfully shut down Colt's competitors.

Colt's presence in the British market caused years of acrimony and lawsuits among British arms makers, who doubted the validity of Colt's British patent and the desirability of the American system of manufacturing.

White and Smith & Wesson would take no less than $ 1. 1 million, but Franklin and Colt's directors decided it was too large an investment on a patent that would expire in 1868.

This same serial numbering convention used on the Kerr was used on the Adams Revolver ( made by the London Armoury Company, among others ), and also is seen on Samuel Colt's percussion revolvers of all models, where the serial number of each revolver ( stamped on various places on the Colt revolver ) was stamped on the cylinder following the words " COLTS PATENT No. " On the Kerr Revolvers, as with the Adams and Colts, these numbers are sequential and are serial numbers and not the patent number.

The company then limited its revolver production to relatively unpopular designs by Edward Maynard until 1857, when Colt's patent expired.

In probate Caroline's son Sam produced a valid marriage license showing that Caroline and Samuel Colt were married in Scotland in 1838 and that this document made him a rightful heir to part of Colt's estate, if not to the Colt Manufacturing Company.

Colt's revolvers were made by machine, but he insisted on final hand finishing and polishing of his revolvers to impart a handmade feel.

In a 1953 biography about Samuel Colt based largely on family letters, Edwards wrote that John Colt's marriage to Caroline in 1841 was a way to legitimize her unborn son as the real father, Samuel Colt, felt she was not fit to be the wife of an industrialist and divorce was a social stigma at the time.

Colt's guns did not always fare well in standardized military tests ; he preferred written testimonials from individual soldiers who used his weapons and these were what he most relied on to secure government contracts.

When he opened the London armory he posted a 14 foot sign on the roof across from Parliament reading " Colonel Colt's Pistol Factory " as a publicity stunt which created a stir in the British press.

However, on December 8, 2005, a District court judge in Maine granted a summary judgment in favor of Bushmaster Firearms, dismissing all of Colt's claims except for false advertising.

He died of rheumatic fever on January 10, 1862, and his close friend and firearms engineer, Elisha K. Root, took over as Colt's company president.

Another of Colt's engineers, William Mason, improved this conversion by placing the rear sight on the hammer and, along with Richards, he was granted patents in 1871 to convert percussion revolvers into rear-loading metallic-cartridge revolvers.

In 1985, Colt's workers, members of the United Auto Workers went on strike for higher wages.

The Colt Python is a double action handgun chambered for the. 357 Magnum cartridge, built on Colt's large I-frame.

Colt's Python revolvers are still popular on the used market and command high prices.

The oldest-known written evidence of a sundae is Platt & Colt's newspaper ad for a " Cherry Sunday " placed in the Ithaca Daily Journal on April 5, 1892.

Unlike the Colt's expensive architecture shared with the Smart Forfour, the emphasis on the Mirage is low pricing to increase Mitsubishi's presence in emerging markets.

In 1874 he became a foreman for Singer Sewing Machine Co., then was employed by Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Co., later went to Winchester Repeating Arms Co., and then was Superintendent and Treasurer for the Sharps Rifle Co. on June 1, 1876 ..

Payne was a character witness at John Colt's murder trial and acted as a witness in Colt's wedding ceremony to Caroline Henshaw on the morning of Colt's scheduled execution.

After Colt's death in 1862, Root took over as president of Colt's Patent Firearms until his death on September 1, 1865.