After receiving a patent in England in 1835, American inventor and industrialist Samuel Colt was granted US patent 9430X for a “revolving gun” on February 25, 1836. The Colt revolver had a revolving ...

This was a bill filed by Col. Colt, the inventor of repeating fire-arms, against the defendants, merchants of the City of New-York, and engaged in the manufacture and sale of arms, similar in ...

Both these guns have been produced. Mr. Staples--What is the evidence? Mr. Keller--I may have been misled; we had evidence to produce to show, that this was the first form of Colt's, but for ...

Colt's patent was extended for 7 years in 849, and has therefore four years to run be-[)re it expires. Col. Colt himself is now in Cngland with a number of American mecha-ics, to establish the ...

The years immediately following the American Civil War presented an interesting dilemma for the Colt Patent Firearms Co. Its reliable percussion revolvers had been the most popular military ...

American Rifleman TV is detailing the history behind Colt’s Official Police revolver in this latest ... 1836 that Samuel Colt was issued a U.S. patent to build his firearm design and factory ...

Colt got the M-16 in a roundabout way. The new rifle was invented by a West Coast gunsmith, who sold the patent to the Fairchild Stratos Corp. Not equipped to make guns, Fairchild four years ago ...

Made between 1837 and 1840, the revolver was one of the early Colt pistols made at the former Patent Arms Manufacturing Co. on the banks of the Passaic River. Opened in 1836 and closed in early ...