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Fact 2234 — at 16, Colt carved a wooden revolver model

Титульна AI-згенерована ілюстрація / AI-generated cover illustration. A teenage apprentice studies a small wooden rotating mechanism aboard a sailing ship.
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Титульна AI-згенерована ілюстрація / AI-generated cover illustration. A teenage apprentice studies a small wooden rotating mechanism aboard a sailing ship.

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At sixteen, Samuel Colt had not yet built a finished pistol. During a sea voyage in 1830, he carved a wooden model of a revolver, inspired by a mechanism that could rotate and lock into position. Colt did not receive a U.S. patent for his first revolver until 1836.