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Samuel Colt
Samuel Colt was an American inventor and industrialist. He was the founder of Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company , and is widely credited with popularizing the revolver. Colt's innovative contributions to the weapons industry have been described by arms historian James E...
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1836
2.25.1836
Samuel Colt is granted an United States patent for the Colt revolver.
3.5.1836
Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
1847
1.4.1847
Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.