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In 1871, Colt's introduced its first revolver models using rear-loaded metallic cartridges: the .41 caliber Colt House Revolver [41] (also known as the Cloverleaf for its four-round cylinder configuration) and the .22 cal Colt Open Top Pocket Model Revolver. [42]
In 1836, Connecticut-born gun manufacturer Samuel Colt (1814-62) received a U.S. patent for a revolver mechanism that enabled a gun to be fired multiple times without reloading. Colt founded a...
Samuel Colt was an inventor and industrialist who created the revolver and paved the way for the interchangeable parts system of manufacturing.
1873. Colt introduces the iconic Single Action Army revolver — also known as the Peacemaker, Colt 45, and ‘gun that won the West’. Colt secures a U.S. government contract designating the SAA as the standard military service revolver and delivers over 30,000 from 1873 to 1891.
Colt Revolvers. The first practical revolving-cylinder handgun was invented in 1831 by Samuel Colt of Hartford, Connecticut, and patented on February 25, 1836, the year of the Texas Revolution. Texas became a proving ground and nearly the only market for Colt's revolutionary product.
Recommend by The American Society of Arms Collectors as a standard reference work in the field of Colt firearms history, this volume presents historical and technical details over the range of Colt revolvers, pistols, rifles, shotguns, carbines, muskets, and sub-machine and machine guns.
The 19th century Colt revolvers have left an indelible mark on history, representing a time of exploration, conflict, and progress. Their legacy as symbols of the American West continues to endure, solidifying their place as iconic firearms in American history and culture.
This pristine original Open Top features a W.L. Ormsby 1843 Naval scene roll-stamped cylinder and the twin patent dates that give the 1871-1872 Open Top its name.
Samuel Colt (/ koʊlt /; July 19, 1814 – January 10, 1862) was an American inventor, industrialist, and businessman who established Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company and made the mass production of revolvers commercially viable.
Samuel Colt was an American firearms inventor, manufacturer, and entrepreneur who popularized the revolver. As a teenaged seaman, Colt carved a wooden model of a revolving cylinder mechanism, and he later perfected a working version that was patented in England and France in 1835 and in the United.