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A Man and His Gun

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 alternative
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