 However, some believe he saw examples of the Collier Flintlock Revolver while touring the Tower after the "Corvo" docked on the River Thames.In any event, sometime while aboard the "Corvo" he produced a wooden model (the model is exhibited at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut) and further developed the concept during the early 1830s.Samuel Colt's first factory, the Patent Arms Company (Plant ruins site at