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Offline Craig Tx

It's Patented!
« on: February 25, 2014, 09:04:29 AM »
From The Texas State Historical Association

Colt patents the "gun that won the West"


On this day in 1836, Samuel Colt, of Hartford, Connecticut, patented the Colt revolver. This invention, along with windmills and barbed wire, brought order to the Great Plains. It was eventually produced in numerous models, the most famous being that of 1871. In 1839 the Republic of Texas ordered 180 of the .36 caliber holster models for the Texas Navy. The Texas Rangers gave the Colt revolver its reputation as a weapon ideally suited for mounted combat. Frederick Law Olmsted remarked that "there were probably as many revolvers in Texas as there were males."

Craig's note:  This was the Paterson, of course y'all knew that...

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Re: It's Patented!
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2014, 05:45:05 PM »
I assume the windmill was for water/irrigation...?
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Re: It's Patented!
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2014, 11:10:11 PM »
That's what I would suppose...

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Re: It's Patented!
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2014, 08:52:03 PM »
Craig, somewhere I have read the idea of Samuel Colt's complicated "indexing" of the Revolver came about due to the similarity of the spokes engaging with the clutch of a ships large steering wheel.  
I think Samuel Colt also built underwater mines!

I've often wondered if he was thinking of apples while building potatoes???  :shock:

The mind of this genius of an inventor gives old folks like myself hope.

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