صمويل كولت - صمويل كولت صاحب أول نموذج أختراع للمسدس

181• Colt purchased a large tract of land beside the , where he built his first factory during 1848, a larger factory named the during 1855, a manor that he called during 1856, and employee tenement housing.

On a visit to Constantinople he gave a custom-engraved and gold inlaid revolver to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire , informing him that the Russians were buying his pistols, thus securing a Turkish order for 5,000 pistols; he neglected to tell the Sultan he had used the same tactic with the Russians to elicit an order.