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* 1814 – Samuel Colt, American inventor and industrialist, founded the Colt's Manufacturing Company ( d. 1862 )
According to Samuel Colt, he came up with the idea for the revolver while at sea, inspired by the capstan winch, which had a ratchet and pawl mechanism on it, a version of which was used in his guns to rotate the cylinder.
Samuel Colt received a British patent for his revolver in 1835 and an American patent ( number 138 ) on February 25, 1836 for a Revolving gun, and made the first production model on March 5 of that year.
The February 25, 1836 patent was then reissued as entitled Revolving gun to Samuel Colt on October 24, 1848.
* February 25 – Samuel Colt receives a United States patent for the Colt revolver, the first revolving barrel multishot firearm.
It was attended by numerous notable figures of the time, including Charles Darwin, Samuel Colt, members of the Orléanist Royal Family and the writers Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, George Eliot and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
* Firearms manufacturer Samuel Colt demonstrated his prototype for the 1851 Colt Navy and also his older Walker and Dragoon revolvers.
Samuel Colt neither invented nor perfected interchangeable parts, but his insistence ( and other industrialists at this time ) that his firearms be manufactured with this property, was another step towards the obsolescence of metal-working artisans and blacksmiths.
Samuel Colt ( July 19, 1814 – January 10, 1862 ) was an American inventor and industrialist from Hartford, Connecticut.
Samuel Colt was born in Hartford, Connecticut, to Christopher Colt, a farmer who had moved his family to Hartford after he became a businessman, and Sarah Colt née Caldwell.
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