Colt Revolver: Inspiration From A Ship’s Wheel
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Sam Colt is now known as the inventor of the revolving pistol but, how it all came to be as we know it now is a mystery. The idea came to him as he was on a ship bound for India. Story has it he got the idea for the revolver by watching the motions of the ships wheel and how the spokes always retu ....
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.... this situation he travled the world as “Dr. Coult” ,giving lectures and demonstrations on the silliness of laughing gas for a profit.
In 1835, he went out to France and England to take out a patent on his new invention, then in 1836 he got an American patent.
In 1837 he tried to to interest the U.S. Government into adopting this sidearm for military use, however they declined, stating that they were satisfied with what they had already. Colt however, was a master salesman. He knew that he ....
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