Sam Colt was a rebellious teenager with a fascination for mechanics. He spent his youth taking things apart and reassembling them just to understand how they worked. Much to the displeasure of his father, he also had a penchant for homemade explosives. This would turn out to be an unlikely union of interests that would destine him to firearm greatness.
After several mischievous adventures involving his explosives and an expulsion from boarding school, Colt‘s father sent him away to become a seaman. There, he would become intrigued by the mechanics of a ship’s wheel, inspiring what would be the world’s first rotation-style firearm.
As history has it, and to the service of gun owners for generations to come, the revolver was born. His passion and persistent attitude matched with an unparalleled creativity made Colt an innovator, a formidable businessman, and a marketing genius. Few figures in history have embodied the American spirit and made a lasting impact comparable to that of Sam Colt.
Learn more about the legendary firearms inventor and manufacturer: Sam Colt: The Forgotten History of America's Legendary Firearms Inventor and Manufacturer at Ammo.com
Its often explained that way, but it is questionable. Colt did not invent a gun with a rotating cylinder that contains several loads, what we today call a revolver.
Such guns existed already before Colt's revolver was patented. The new part on his gun was, that the cylinder was automatically turned to the next chamber when the hammer is cocked. This had to be done by hand before.
But the innovation that made the Colt company really big was, that he was the first _ before Henry Ford - who set up a production line manufacturing. Previously, guns were made one by one, with all its parts made to fit just that gun, often by only one or two workers. Colt produced all the parts to be identical, each worker making the same part again and again. This way all parts became interchangeable and the production much more efficient. That was almost 50 years before Ford started building his cars with that method.
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