Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2006).
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Samuel Colt
Samuel Colt 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.
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business · American industrialist and inventor (1814–1862) · inventor · entrepreneur · artisan · design engineer · weapons manufacturing company · engineer · also Samuel Colt, Colt
Born 22 July 1814 · Died 10 January 1862 · Q183246
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2006· 2 entries
Samuel Colt was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
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1999· 1 entry
Dollars) to the publishers of United States Magazine for a 29-page fully illustrated story showing the inner workings of his factory
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1975· 1 entry
The Church of the Good Shepherd and Parish House was listed in the National Register of Historic Places
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1896· 1 entry
A parish house was built on the site as a memorial to their son, Caldwell, who died in 1894
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1867· 1 entry
Colt's widow Elizabeth had an Episcopal church designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter built as a memorial to him and the three children they lost
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1862· 2 entries
Died 1862-01-10.
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Was one of the wealthiest men in the United States
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1861· 1 entry
In the 1st Regiment Colts Revolving Rifles of Connecticut armed with the Colt revolving rifle
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1859· 1 entry
Colt considered building an armory in the South and as late as 1861 had sold 2,000 revolvers to Confederate agent John Forsyth
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1856· 2 entries
Colt married Elizabeth Jarvis, the daughter of the Rev
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Closed the London plant and had the machinery, tooling, and unfinished guns shipped to Hartford
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1854· 1 entry
Colt fought for his patent extension with the U
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1852· 1 entry
Colt threatened to sue another company, Allen & Thurber, over the cylinder design of their double-action pepperbox revolver
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1850· 1 entry
General Sam Houston and General Thomas Jefferson Rusk lobbied Secretary of War William Marcy and President James K
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1849· 1 entry
Gun makers James Warner and Massachusetts Arms infringed on the patent
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1848· 2 entries
Colt introduced smaller versions of his pistols for civilian use, known as "Baby Dragoons"
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More contracts followed for what is known now as the Colt Dragoon Revolver
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1847· 1 entry
Met Colt in a gunsmith's shop and ordered 1,000 revolvers
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1843· 1 entry
The army gave Colt an order for 200,000 of the tinfoil cartridges packed 10 to a box for use in muskets
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1842· 1 entry
Used one of the devices to destroy a moving vessel, to the satisfaction of the United States Navy and President John Tyler
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1841· 2 entries
Was a way to legitimize her unborn son, as the real father, Samuel Colt, felt she was not fit to be the wife of an industrialist and divorce was a social stigma at the time
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Made samples of these cartridges for the army
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1838· 1 entry
And that this document made him a rightful heir to part of Colt's estate, if not to the Colt Manufacturing Company
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1832· 1 entry
Resumed working for his father, who financed the production of two guns, a rifle and a pistol
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1830· 1 entry
A July 4 accident caused a fire that ended his schooling, and his father sent him away to learn the seaman's trade
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1829· 1 entry
At the age of 15, Colt began working in his father's textile plant in Ware, Massachusetts, where he had access to tools, materials, and the factory workers' expertise
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1814· 1 entry
Born 1814-07-22.
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