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Samuel Colt (19th-century engraving) Born Samuel Colt
(1814-07-19)July 19, 1814 Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Died January 10, 1862(1862-01-10) (aged 47) Hartford,
Connecticut, United States Occupation Inventor, industrialist,
businessman Net worth USD $15 million at the time of his death
(approximately 1/966th of US GNP)[1] Spouse(s) Elizabeth Hart
Jarvis Children Caldwell Hart Colt Relatives John C. Colt
Samuel Colt (July 19, 1814 – January 10, 1862) was an American
inventor and industrialist from Hartford, Connecticut. He
founded Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company (today,
Colt's Manufacturing Company), and made the mass production of
the revolver commercially viable.  Colt's first two business
ventures — producing firearms in Paterson, New Jersey, and
making underwater mines — ended in disappointment. But his
business expanded rapidly after 1847, when the Texas Ranger