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The M1854 model was a single-action, pinfire revolver holding six rounds. [1] It was a French military revolver chambered for the 12 mm pinfire cartridge, based on a design by Casimir Lefaucheux (Eugene's father, who was also a gun designer). The M1854 revolver spawned numerous variants, some of which were produced under license in other countries.
The Smith & Wesson Model 1 was the first firearm manufactured by Smith & Wesson, with production spanning from 1857 to 1882. It was the first commercially successful revolver to use rimfire cartridges instead of loose powder, musket ball, and percussion caps. It is a single-action, tip-up revolver holding seven .22 Short black powder cartridges ...
Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. (S&W) is an American firearm manufacturer headquartered in Maryville, Tennessee, United States. Smith & Wesson was founded by Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson as the "Smith & Wesson Revolver Company" in 1856, after their previous company, also called the "Smith & Wesson Company" and later renamed as "Volcanic Repeating Arms", was sold to Oliver Winchester and ...
The Colt Paterson revolver was the first commercial repeating firearm employing a revolving cylinder with multiple chambers aligned with a single, stationary barrel. Its design was patented by Samuel Colt on February 25, 1836, in the United States, England and France, and it derived its name from being produced in Paterson, New Jersey .
Polymer technology is considered one of the major advancements in revolver history because the frame was previously always metal alloy and mostly a one-piece design. [ 36 ] Another 21st century development in revolver technology is the Chiappa Rhino , a revolver introduced by Italian manufacturer Chiappa in 2009, and first sold in the U.S. in 2010.
Leavitt took out a patent on his new design on April 29, 1837, when the U.S. Patent Office [7] granted him United States patent number 182 for an 'improvement in many-chambered cylinder fire-arms.' [8] The early weapon, the second of its kind, [9] was a .40-caliber percussion, 6-shot single-action revolver with a 6 + 3 ⁄ 4-inch octagon tip-up ...
The first revolving-breech pistols made at the factory were named "Whitneyville-Hartford-Dragoons" and became so popular that the word "Colt" was often used as a generic term for "revolver". [32] The Whitneyville-Hartford Dragoon, largely built from leftover Walker parts, is known as the first model in the transition from the Walker to the ...
Adams was the manager for the London arms manufacturers George & John Deane. On August 22, 1851, he was granted a British patent for a new revolver design. [2] The .436 Deane and Adams was a five-shot percussion (cap-and-ball) revolver with a spurless hammer, and the first revolver with a solid frame. The revolver used a double-action only ...