Samuel Colt
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title:
Samuel Colt
text:
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. Colt's first two business ventures were producing firearms in Paterson, New Jersey, and making underwater mines; both ended in disappointment. His business affairs improved rapidly after 1847, when the Texas Rangers ordered 1,000 revolvers during the American war with Mexico. Later, his firearms were used
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American industrialist and inventor (1814–1862)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Colt
date created:
2003-02-26T05:37:49Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T02:33:45Z
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