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Samuel Colt

Author : Herbert G. Houze
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300111339
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Samuel Colt written by Herbert G. Houze and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of the American inventor and manufacturer who perfected the revolver Samuel Colt (1814-1862) first patented his "Colt" revolver in 1835 and thereby redefined the architecture of handguns. This stunning book is the first to present in detail the evolution of his most famous invention and to document the unsurpassed Colt firearms collections held by the Wadsworth Atheneum. Colt designed his revolvers with an artistic sensibility--paying particular attention to form and beauty and juxtaposing colors and finishes to heighten the visual effects. He was also one of the first American manufacturers to secure celebrity endorsements and to commission paintings by renowned artists like George Catlin to promote his arms. Colt's standards for excellence, industrial foresight, and quest for market domination are explored in light of primary documents that reveal his constant battles to protect his patents. Essays discuss Colt's personal collection of historic firearms as well as the memorial collection of Colt-manufactured firearms, the relationship between art and commerce as they pertain to the inventor's career, and his international celebrity. Richly illustrated and beautifully produced, this volume presents the artistry of the firearms that Colt worked so diligently to perfect--as well as his promotional abilities that made a tremendous impact on American culture.

Revolver

Author : Jim Rasenberger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501166395
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Revolver written by Jim Rasenberger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patented in 1836, the Colt pistol with its revolving cylinder was the first practical firearm that could shoot more than one bullet without reloading. Its most immediate impact was on the expansionism of the American west, where white emigrants and US soldiers came to depend on it, and where Native Americans came to dread it. In making the revolver, Colt also changed American manufacturing, and revolutionized industry in the United States. Rasenberger brings the brazenly ambitious and profoundly innovative industrialist and leader Samuel Colt to vivid life. During an age of promise and progress, and also of slavery, corruption, and unbridled greed, Colt not only helped to create this America, he completely embodied it.-- adapted from info provided

The Book of Colt Firearms

Author : R. L. Wilson
Publisher : Blue Book Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781886768840
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (688 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Colt Firearms written by R. L. Wilson and published by Blue Book Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Third Edition Book of Colt Firearms is a complete Colt library in one 648-page volume, with over 1.2 million words, 1,250 B&W images, and 75 color images. This mammoth work tells the Colt story from 1832 to the present. No other reference book covers the Colt company and its products in such detail.

Armsmear; the home, the arm, and the armory of Samuel Colt [by H. Barnard].

Author : Henry Barnard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Armsmear; the home, the arm, and the armory of Samuel Colt [by H. Barnard]. written by Henry Barnard and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Story of Colt's Revolver

Author : William B. Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Colt's Revolver written by William B. Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Killer Colt

Author : Harold Schechter
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504094263
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Killer Colt written by Harold Schechter and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-the-room account of John Colt’s scandalous nineteenth-century murder trial from “America’s principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers” (Boston Review). In this masterful account, renowned true-crime historian Harold Schechter takes you into the life and crimes of convicted murderer John Caldwell Colt, drawing parallels between John’s rise to notoriety and his brother Samuel Colt’s rise to fame as the inventor of the legendary revolver. With a killing that made headlines around the nation, John Colt became a cultural touchstone whose shocking villainy inspired and provoked such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, and Herman Melville. Unlike his brother, John lived a nomadic existence, bouncing from one job to another. His one distinction, writing a reference accounting book, would play a part in his fall from grace. For in New York City, on September 17, 1841, John murdered printer Samuel Adams with a hatchet during a heated argument over proceeds from book sales. A media circus ensued, galvanizing the penny press, which printed lurid headlines and gruesome woodcut illustrations. The standing-room-only trial created unforgettable moments in legal history, including such dramatic evidence as Samuel Adams’s decomposed head. The verdict and its aftermath would reverberate throughout the country and beyond, giving John Colt lasting infamy. “[Schechter] leads us through Colt’s trial with such precision that you can smell the cigar smoke in the courtroom. . . . Killer Colt succeeds in making us care about this story now by showing why it mattered to so many people then.” —HistoryNet

The Man Behind the Gun

Author : Edwin Brit Wyckoff
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780766034464
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book The Man Behind the Gun written by Edwin Brit Wyckoff and published by Enslow Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Readers will learn about Samuel Colt, the revolver, and mass production"--Provided by publisher.

Colt

Author : William N. Hosley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Colt written by William N. Hosley and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with an account of Sam Colt's early failures as both inventor and businessman, William Hosley traces the development in the pre-Civil War years of the notorious Colt revolver - "The Gun That Won the West" - into the first truly global manufacturing export in U.S. history.

Colt Single-Action Revolvers

Author : Martin Pegler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472810996
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Colt Single-Action Revolvers written by Martin Pegler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1836, Samuel Colt changed the face of warfare with the production of the first of a series of iconic and influential single-action revolvers, including the .44-calibre Colt Walker and the seminal .45-calibre Colt Single Action Army, which remains in production today. These weapons shifted the role of the pistol from single-shot weapon of last resort to a practical and powerful sidearm that gave the user the ability to defend himself once his primary armament was discharged. It transformed cavalry tactics and relegated the sword to a largely ceremonial role in many armies. Featuring full-colour artwork, expert analysis and gripping first-hand accounts, this is the absorbing story of Colt's family of single-action revolvers, covering their origins, development, use and lasting impact on the modern world.

Colt Brevete Revolvers

Author : Roy Martin Marcot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780961149420
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Colt Brevete Revolvers written by Roy Martin Marcot and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of the Colt Revolver, and Other Arms Made by Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company from 1836 to 1940

Author : Charles Tower Haven
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of the Colt Revolver, and Other Arms Made by Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company from 1836 to 1940 by : Charles Tower Haven

Download or read book A History of the Colt Revolver, and Other Arms Made by Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company from 1836 to 1940 written by Charles Tower Haven and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Froth and Scum

Author : Andie Tucher
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807866016
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Froth and Scum written by Andie Tucher and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two notorious antebellum New York murder cases--a prostitute slashed in an elegant brothel and a tradesman bludgeoned by the brother of inventor Samuel Colt--set off journalistic scrambles over the meanings of truth, objectivity, and the duty of the press that reverberate to this day. In 1833 an entirely new kind of newspaper--cheap, feisty, and politically independent--introduced American readers to the novel concept of what has come to be called objectivity in news coverage. The penny press was the first medium that claimed to present the true, unbiased facts to a democratic audience. But in Froth and Scum, Andie Tucher explores--and explodes--the notion that 'objective' reporting will discover a single, definitive truth. As they do now, news stories of the time aroused strong feelings about the possibility of justice, the privileges of power, and the nature of evil. The prostitute's murder in 1836 sparked an impassioned public debate, but one newspaper's 'impartial investigation' pleased the powerful by helping the killer go free. Colt's 1841 murder of the tradesman inspired universal condemnation, but the newspapers' singleminded focus on his conviction allowed another secret criminal to escape. By examining media coverage of these two sensational murders, Tucher reveals how a community's needs and anxieties can shape its public truths. The manuscript of this book won the 1991 Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians for the best-written dissertation in American history. from the book Journalism is important. It catches events on the cusp between now and then--events that still may be changing, developing, ripening. And while new interpretations of the past can alter our understanding of lives once led, new interpretations of the present can alter the course of our lives as we live them. Understanding the news properly is important. The way a community receives the news is profoundly influenced by who its members are, what they hope and fear and wish, and how they think about their fellow citizens. It is informed by some of the most occult and abstract of human ideas, about truth, beauty, goodness, and justice.

The Colt Walker Army Revolver

Author : Charles W. Pate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781931464888
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book The Colt Walker Army Revolver written by Charles W. Pate and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On the Application of Machinery to the Manufacture of Rotating Chambered-breech Fire-arms and Their Peculiarities

Author : Samuel Colt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Application of Machinery to the Manufacture of Rotating Chambered-breech Fire-arms and Their Peculiarities written by Samuel Colt and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Colt Single Action

Author : Dennis Alder
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510709223
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Colt Single Action written by Dennis Alder and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book spans the entire history of Sam Colt's developments in handguns. It follows the first Paterson revolvers through the legendary 1860 Army and the evolution of cap and ball revolvers into the cartridge models carried during the Western Expansion of the 1870s. Author and photographer Dennis Adler takes you on a historical journey through time with striking studio photography of the world's greatest Colt revolvers, factory archival images and original patent drawings, and tales of the soldiers, lawmen, and lawbreakers who made Colt revolvers part of American history. Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for hunters and firearms enthusiasts. We publish books about shotguns, rifles, handguns, target shooting, gun collecting, self-defense, archery, ammunition, knives, gunsmithing, gun repair, and wilderness survival. We publish books on deer hunting, big game hunting, small game hunting, wing shooting, turkey hunting, deer stands, duck blinds, bowhunting, wing shooting, hunting dogs, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Sam Colt's Own Record

Author : Samuel Colt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Sam Colt's Own Record written by Samuel Colt and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Art of the Gun

Author : Robert Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780971753389
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book The Art of the Gun written by Robert Lee and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art of the Gun: Magnificent Colts Selections from the Robert M. Lee CollectionMagnificent Colts, the first in the five mega-volume The Art of the Gun series, celebrates the 175th anniversary of the founding of the Colt Company, by Samuel Colt, the first industrial tycoon. No object in history can rival the best quality gun in its multiple status as symbol of freedom, captivating mechanical marvel, tool of history, favorite for presentation, treasured equipment of sport, and masterful object of decorative art. Over several decades, Robert M. Lee has collected these treasures, including major examples of Colt production. The Art of the Gun celebrates these masterpieces in words and pictures all of them in glowing color, with most of the arms in actual size.