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Term Paper Title	Colt: A Man And His Guns
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Colt: A Man and His Guns

      The Colt six shooter will always be a legend to many fighting men.
Whether you know it as an accurate, cowboy, Texas Ranger, gun-slinging, out West,
corral gun, or as a little protection, the Peacemaker by Samuel Colt  and Samuel
Colt will never be forgotten.

   Samuel Colt is known as the inventor of the first revolving firearm. Colt was
born in 1814 to a family were money was not the pressing issue.  His father ,
Christopher, was a man that owned his own silk mill in the town where Colt was
born, Hartford, Connecticut. Colt's mother died when he was six and his father's
business started to fail. When Colt Colt was seven, he was fascinated by guns.
He took apart his father's gun in a field and was able to successfully rebuild
it.  At the age of ten Colt was an apprentice in his fathers mill, mostly dying
clothes. Science, adventures of an active life, and mechanics were all the
favorite passions of young  Colt. The adventures eventually led Colt into
trouble.  At the age of seventeen Colt was expelled form a preparatory school in
Amherst, MA.

      During the years of 1830 - 1831 Colt voyaged to India..  It was during
these years that Colt first conceived the idea of a revolving firearm.  Some
think it may have come from watching the revolving wheel of the ship, turning
and locking.  While on board ship,  Colt must have seen other revolving firearms
in London or  India.  He carved a wooden model of his ideal gun while he was at
sea.  None of what Colt may have previously seen on revolving guns could have
led to his invention. His ideas were not copied from any source, even though the
revolving idea was not unique.

      When Colt arrived  home from sea, he showed  the  wooden model to his
father and a family friend.  This friend was Henry Ellsworth, Commissioner of
the United States Patent Office. Both Colt's father and Mr. Ellsworth were
greatly impressed by the model.   They encouraged Colt to file for a patent for
his revolving firearm. In the year 1831 Colt hired a man to create the first
working model.  In 1836 Colt began the production of the first revolver after
his petition for the patent. Between these years Colt presented lectures on
chemistry and did practical demonstrations of laughing gas.

      On February of the 25, in the year 1835, the first United States patent
was granted for Colt revolver. The patent that Colt received covered eight basic
features.  First, the application of caps at the end of the gun cylinder.
Second, the application of a partition between the caps, as well as other basic
ideas. The other areas of the patent cover the application of certain parts of
the gun,  the principle of locking and turning the cylinder , and all of the
basic revolver parts.

      In 1848, the new pocket model revolver was introduced. Colt devised an
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