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SECTION II
COLT’S PERCUSSION REVOLVERS
THE PATERSON REVOLVERS
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The gas was a means to an end, however, as his act raised funds to hire gunsmiths in Albany, Baltimore and Hartford. These gunsmiths eventually produced a plethora of firearm designs. This, too, was a wondrous accomplishment considering the relative complexity of the revolvers and the relatively primitive state of the machinery of mass production.
In 1835, Colt traveled to Europe where he obtained patents in England and France – the countries, it was generally believed, most likely to pirate his ideas if he first patented in the United States. (In those days it took weeks, not hours, to visit those countries in person.) His first U.S. patent was granted on February 25, 1836, and the next month, he chartered the Patent Arms Manufacturing Company in Paterson, New Jersey, with sales offices and showroom in New York City.