Samuel Colt Research Paper

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8 December 2014
Samuel Colt
Sense the beginning of time men have been trying to come up with better and more effective ways to kill each other. Well on July 19, 1814 a man was born in Hartford Connecticut that would forever change the way wars were fought. His name was Samuel Colt. In 1936 at the age of twenty two Samuel Colt filed a patient for a warfare device that would take the battle field by storm. It was the revolving cylinder pistol that held 5 to 6 shots. This was revolutionary think because up until this point in history all firearms were single shot muzzle loading weapons. Colts new invention would allow a man to fire one shot every day of the week. This same year he opened his first factory known as the Paterson Arms Manufacturing Company in Paterson, New Jersey, and began manufacturing.
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In 1960 Colt release the AR-15 for the U.S. forces in Vietnam. In 1986 the 150th anniversary of the company the company went on strike lasting for four years. In 1990 the company had a short revival after the strike, but in 1992 filed chapter 11 bankruptcy. In 1995 they excited bankruptcy and became the firearms super power we know today.
In all some people wander if they left their mark on history. Samuel Colt doesn’t have to worry about that every time an American purchases a Colt 1911 or a United States Marine fires his Colt M-4 they member the man and the legend that was Samuel Colt. It is summed up in Colts’ marketing statement of "Abe Lincoln may have freed all men, but Sam Colt made them equal.".

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