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"God made all Men, Samuel Colt made them equal." Samuel Colt (born Hartford,Conn. July 19, 1814 - died Hartford, Conn. January 10, 1862) was an American inventor. In 1835-36, he patented a revolving-breech pistol and founded at Paterson, N.J., the Patent Arms Company, which failed in 1842. An order for 1,000 revolvers from the U.S. government in 1847 in the Mexican-American War made possible the reestablishment of his business. He later built the Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company factory at Hartford. Colt also invented a submarine battery used in harbor defense and a submarine telegraph cable. His revolving-breech pistol became so popular that the word "Colt" was sometimes used as a generic term for the revolver. Colt stated that he was first inspired by the concept of the revolver by observing the ship's wheel on a trip to India at age 16. Colt's real claim to fame is the influence he had on automation, both in the firearms industry and automated industrialisation as we know it today. He employed people who were forward thinkers of automation and demonstrated that real automation brought enormous cost benefits.
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