a company founded by Samuel Colt, the inventor and industrialist who patented the revolver design in 1836. Today, Colt's most popular revolver is the Python, which was first produced from 1955 to ...

In 1836, Samuel Colt patented a "revolving gun," the first of the six-shooters. In 1870, Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Natchez, Miss., was sworn into the U.S. Senate, becoming the first ...