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the native land of the inventor. Col. Colt, sent out Mr. Peard as his agent to Cape Town, with a quantity of his revolvers and he invited the most celebrated shots in the British army there ...

This invention enabled farmers to plant seeds ... a need for more advanced guns and one of the most popular was the Colt revolver. Capable of holding six shots, the “Texas pistol” came about ...

Colt revolvers In 1836, inventor Samuel Colt revolutionized warfare when his first revolver design was patented. The new weapon allowed a soldier to fire six bullets in as many seconds without ...

The modern design revolver has been around since 1830 when Sam Colt was bored while crossing the ocean on a slow boat and carved out a wooden model of a revolver. He is arguably said to have invented ...