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Samuel Colt

1814 - 1862

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Samuel Colt (; July 19, 1814 – January 10, 1862) 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 expanded rapidly after 1847, when the Texas Rangers ordered 1,000 revolvers during the American war with Mexico. During the American Civil War, his factory in Hartford supplied firearms both to the North and the South. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel Colt is the 33rd most popular inventor (down from 23rd in 2019), the 395th most popular biography from United States (down from 241st in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Inventor.

Samuel Colt is most famous for inventing the Colt revolver.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Samuel Colt ranks 33 out of 426. Before him are John Logie Baird, Denis Papin, Thomas Newcomen, Abbas ibn Firnas, Jimmy Wales, and Ernő Rubik. After him are Gideon Sundback, John Herschel, Antonio Meucci, Igor Sikorsky, László Bíró, and Joseph Marie Jacquard.

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Among people born in 1814, Samuel Colt ranks 5. Before him are Mikhail Bakunin, Jean-François Millet, Taras Shevchenko, and Mikhail Lermontov. After him are Anders Jonas Ångström, Adolphe Sax, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Julius von Mayer, Edwin Stanton, Hong Xiuquan, and Henri Nestlé. Among people deceased in 1862, Samuel Colt ranks 4. Before him are Martin Van Buren, Bahadur Shah Zafar, and Henry David Thoreau. After him are John Tyler, Jean-Baptiste Biot, Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Fromental Halévy, Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, Božena Němcová, James Clark Ross, and Princess Maria Antonia Koháry.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Samuel Colt ranks 395 out of 20,380. Before him are Gloria Stuart (1910), Colonel Sanders (1890), Dianne Wiest (1946), J. D. Vance (1984), Robert Wadlow (1918), and Marilyn Manson (1969). After him are Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958), Owen Chamberlain (1920), Edward Thorndike (1874), Rocky Marciano (1923), John Ford (1894), and Lee Van Cleef (1925).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Samuel Colt ranks 7. Before him are Thomas Edison (1847), Henry Ford (1863), Samuel Morse (1791), Eli Whitney (1765), Lee de Forest (1873), and Jimmy Wales (1966). After him are Bob Kahn (1938), Herman Hollerith (1860), Robert Fulton (1765), Steve Wozniak (1950), George Westinghouse (1846), and Douglas Engelbart (1925).

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