Colt submitted his single prototype to the War Department as a "Holster revolver". Captain Samuel Walker of the Texas Rangers had acquired some of the first Colt revolvers produced during the Seminole War and saw first-hand their effective use as his man unit defeated a larger force of 70 Comanche in Texas. He met Colt in a gunsmith's shop on January 4, , and placed an order for 1, revolvers. The large order allowed Colt to establish a new firearm business. Colt hired Eli Whitney Blake , who was established in the arms business, to make his guns.
From this new design, Blake produced the first thousand-piece order known as the Colt Walker. With the money he made from the sales of the Walkers and a loan from his cousin, banker Elisha Colt, Colt bought the machinery and tooling from Blake to build his own factory: Beginning in , more contracts followed for what is today known as the Colt Dragoon Revolvers.
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These models were based on the Walker Colt, and in three generations slight changes to each model showed the rapid evolution of the design. Besides being used in the war with Mexico , Colt's revolvers were employed as a sidearm by both civilians and soldiers. Colt's revolvers were a key tool in the westward expansion. A revolver which could fire six times without reloading helped soldiers and settlers fend off larger forces which were not armed in the same way. In , Colt introduced smaller versions of his pistols known as Baby Dragoons that were made for civilian use.
Polk to adopt Colt's revolvers for the U. The gun became the standard sidearm for U. After the testimony by Houston and Rusk, the next issue became how quickly Colt could supply the military. During this period, Colt received an extension on his patent since he did not collect on it in the early years. In , gun makers James Warner and Massachusetts Arms infringed on the patent. Colt sued the companies and the court ordered that Warner and Massachusetts Arms cease revolver production.
Production of Allen pepperboxes continued until the expiration of Colt's patent in Congress, who launched a special committee to investigate charges that Colt had bribed government officials in securing this extension. By August he was exonerated and the story became national news when Scientific American reported that the fault was not with Colt, but with Washington politicians. By telling each nation that the others were buying Colt's pistols, Colt was able to get large orders from many countries who feared falling behind in the arms race.
A key element to Colt's success was vigorous protection of his patent rights. Even though he lawfully held the only patent on a revolver, scores of imitators copied his work and Colt found himself constantly in litigation. Dickerson, deftly exploited the patent system and successfully shut down Colt's competitors. His preoccupation with patent infringement suits slowed his own company's transition to the cartridge system and blocked other firms from pursuing revolver designs.
At the same time, Colt's policies forced some competing inventors to greater innovation by denying them key features of his mechanism; as a result they created their own. Colt knew he had to make his revolvers affordable, as the death of many great inventions was a high retail price. Colt fixed his prices at a level below his competition to maximize sales volume. From his experience in haggling with government officials, he knew what numbers he would have to generate to make enough profit to invest money in improving his machinery, thereby limiting imitators' ability to produce a comparable weapon at a lower price.
Although successful at this, for the most part, his preoccupation with marketing strategies and patent protection caused him to miss a great opportunity in firearms development when he dismissed an idea from one of his gunsmiths, Rollin White. White had an idea of a "bored-through" revolver cylinder to allow the use of metallic cartridges in a handgun. Colt purchased a large tract of land beside the Connecticut River , where he built his first factory in , a larger factory called the Colt Armory in , a manor that he called Armsmear in , and employee tenement housing.
Colt ran his plant with a military-like discipline, he would fire workers for tardiness, sub-par work or even suggesting improvements to his designs. Colt hired Elisha K. Root as his chief mechanic in setting up the plant's machinery. Root had been successful in an earlier venture automating the production of axes and made, bought, or improved jigs, fixtures and profile machinery for Colt.
Over the years he developed specialized machinery for stock turning or cutting the rifling in gun barrels. Historian Barbara Tucker credits Root as "the first to build special purpose machinery and apply it to the manufacture of a commercial product". Houze, wrote, "had it not been for Root's inventive genius, Colt's dream of mass production would never have been realized". Thus, Colt's factory was the first to make use of the concept known as the assembly line.
Colt turned to artisan gun makers from Bavaria and developed a commercial use for Waterman Ormsby 's grammagraph to produce "roll- die " engraving on steel, particularly on the cylinders. In an attempt to attract skilled European-immigrant workers to his plant, Colt built a village near the factory away from the tenements which he named Coltsville and modeled the homes after a village in Potsdam. In an effort to stem the flooding from the river he planted German osiers , a type of willow tree, in a 2-mile-long dike.
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He subsequently built a factory to manufacture wicker furniture made from these trees. William Jarvis, who lived downriver from Hartford. The couple had four children: Soon after establishing his Hartford factory, Colt set out to establish a factory in Europe and chose London. He organized a large display of his firearms at the Great Exhibition of at Hyde Park, London and ingratiated himself by presenting cased engraved Colt revolvers to such appropriate officials as Britain's Master General of the Ordnance.
As the world's leading proponent of mass production techniques, Colt went on to deliver a lecture on the subject to the Institution of Civil Engineers ICE in London. Unwilling to alter his open-top single-action design for the solid frame double-action revolver that the British asked for; Colt scarcely sold 23, revolvers to the British Army and Navy. In he closed the London plant and had the machinery, tooling, and unfinished guns shipped to Hartford.
When foreign heads of state would not grant him an audience, as he was only a private citizen, he persuaded the governor of the state of Connecticut make him a lieutenant colonel and aide-de-camp in the state militia. With this rank, he toured Europe again to promote his revolvers. He frequently gave custom engraved versions of his revolvers to heads of state, military officers, and personalities such as Giuseppe Garibaldi , King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy , and Hungarian freedom fighter Lajos Kossuth.
Lastly, he hired authors to write stories about his guns for magazines and travel guides. After his revolvers had gained acceptance, Colt looked for unsolicited news stories containing mention of his guns that he could excerpt and reprint. He went so far as to hire agents in other states and territories to find such samples, to buy hundreds of copies for himself and to give the editor a free revolver for writing them, particularly if such a story disparaged his competition.
Colt" or "From the Inventor" engraved on the back straps. Later versions contained his entire signature which was used in many of his advertisements as a centerpiece, using his celebrity to guarantee the performance of his weapons. Colt eventually secured a trademark for his signature. In Colt considered building an armory in the South and as late as had sold 2, revolvers to Confederate agent John Forsyth. However, the unit never took the field and Colt was discharged on June 20, His professional responsibilities were turned over to his brother-in-law, Richard Jarvis.
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Colt historian William Edwards wrote that Samuel Colt had married Caroline Henshaw who later married his brother, John in Scotland in , and that the son she bore later was Samuel Colt's and not his brother John's. Historians such as Edwards and Harold Schechter have said this was the elder Colt's way of letting the world know that the boy was his own son without directly saying so. In probate Caroline's son Sam produced a valid marriage license showing that Caroline and Samuel Colt were married in Scotland in and that this document made him a rightful heir to part of Colt's estate, if not to the Colt Manufacturing Company.
It is estimated that in its first 25 years of manufacturing, Colt's company produced over , revolvers. Before his death, each barrel was stamped: Colt did this as New York and London were major cosmopolitan cities and he retained an office in New York at Broadway where he based his salesmen. Colt was the first American manufacturer to use art as a marketing tool when he hired Catlin to prominently display Colt firearms in his paintings. He was awarded numerous government contracts after making gifts of his highly embellished and engraved revolvers with exotic grips such as ivory or pearl to government officials.
Apart from gifts and bribes, Colt employed an effective marketing program which comprised sales promotion, publicity, product sampling, and public relations. Colt felt that bad press was just as important as good press; provided that his name and his revolvers received mention. When he opened the London armory he posted a foot sign on the roof across from Parliament reading "Colonel Colt's Pistol Factory" as a publicity stunt which created a stir in the British press. Eventually the British government forced him to take down this sign. Tucker, professor of history and director of the Center for Connecticut Studies at Eastern Connecticut State University , wrote that Colt's marketing techniques transformed the firearm from a utilitarian object into a central symbol of American identity.
Tucker added that Colt tied his revolvers to American patriotism, freedom and individualism while asserting America's technological supremacy over Europe's. In , his widow, Elizabeth, had an Episcopal church designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter built as a memorial to Samuel Colt and the three children they lost. The church's architecture contains guns and gun-smithing tools sculpted in marble to commemorate Colt's life as an arms maker. In a parish house was built on the site as a memorial to their son, Caldwell who died in Colt set up libraries and educational programs within his armories for his employees which were seminal training grounds for several generations of toolmakers and other machinists , who had great influence in other manufacturing efforts of the next half century.
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