INVENTOR

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel Colt has received more than 1,793,472 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Samuel Colt is the 23rd most popular inventor (down from 22nd in 2019), the 241st most popular biography from United States (down from 183rd in 2019) and the 4th 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 23 out of 426. Before him are George Stephenson, Rudolf Diesel, Nicéphore Niépce, Abbas ibn Firnas, Werner von Siemens, and Bartolomeo Cristofori. After him are Ernő Rubik, Ismail al-Jazari, Karl Ferdinand Braun, Antonio Meucci, Denis Papin, and Steve Wozniak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Samuel Colt ranks 4. Before him are Mikhail Bakunin, Jean-François Millet, and Taras Shevchenko. After him are Mikhail Lermontov, Adolphe Sax, Anders Jonas Ångström, Julius von Mayer, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Henri Nestlé, Hong Xiuquan, and Jenny von Westphalen. Among people deceased in 1862, Samuel Colt ranks 3. Before him are Martin Van Buren, and Henry David Thoreau. After him are Jean-Baptiste Biot, John Tyler, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Mikhail Ostrogradsky, James Clark Ross, Božena Němcová, Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, Fromental Halévy, and Karl Nesselrode.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Samuel Colt ranks 241 out of 20,380. Before him are Kevin Costner (1955), Robert Wadlow (1918), Carl David Anderson (1905), Diane Keaton (1946), Audie Murphy (1925), and Charlton Heston (1923). After him are John Ford (1894), Noah Webster (1758), Frank Zappa (1940), John Rawls (1921), Philip K. Dick (1928), and David Lynch (1946).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Samuel Colt ranks 4. Before him are Thomas Edison (1847), Henry Ford (1863), and Samuel Morse (1791). After him are Steve Wozniak (1950), Eli Whitney (1765), George Westinghouse (1846), Robert Fulton (1765), Ruth Handler (1916), Jimmy Wales (1966), Willis Carrier (1876), and Herman Hollerith (1860).

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