2007-01-11 12:01:11 · 4 answers · asked by blass 1 in Sports ➔ Outdoor Recreation ➔ Hunting
In 1839 Colt was granted a Patent for the revolving breach loading folding trigger firearm. He produced this in his New Jersey Plant under mass production methods. His business went under. (date may be off a year or so)
Then he opened (thanks to the Mexican American War) a plant in Hartford, CT and began to mass produce the weapons. Any similar weapon by another company became known as a Colt.
2007-01-11 13:17:56 · answer #1 · answered by It's been awhile 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
It was the first patented breech-loading revolving pistol and 'practical' repeating firearm. Someone had already invented and patented a flintlock revolver. Also, the Colt revolver was mass-produced (industrialized) as early as say... 1847, or so.
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2007-01-11 12:50:10 · answer #2 · answered by H 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It took all the other best parts and used them all in one gun. Nothing more.
Colt didn't invent the revolver. It predated him by at least 35 years. He didn't invent the self contained toggle-action loading lever....that was in use on German pistols 20 years prior to his design. The inline percussion cap firing system....Belgium by about 15 years. The two piece utility frame....no one knows who invented it but it predates his design by another 15 years or so.
What his gun did was take them all and put them into one weapon.
2007-01-11 16:27:36 · answer #3 · answered by randkl 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It was fairly cheap, pretty accurate, that's what made it popular. And not ridiculously heavy.
2007-01-11 12:08:41 · answer #4 · answered by doctorevil64 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋