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SAMUEL COLT (1814-1862) American inventor. Colt, as a youth of 16 aboard a Boston, Massachusettes, ship bound for the East Indies, whittling a wooden model of the revolving pistol he would patent in 1835. Wood engraving, American, 19th century.
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Sectional view of Colt revolver with, at E, the cylinder and revolving mechanism. From Edward H Knight The Practical Dictionary of Mechanics, New York and London c1878.
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