Samuel Colt was an American inventor and industrialist. He founded “Fire-Armas”. He was born on 19th of Julay 1814 in Hartford, Connecticut. His mother was Sarah Caldwell and his father Cristopher Colt. His father had a textile factory. He loved the experiments with explosives. When he was young, he experimented with explosives at school, and he did an explosion that destroyed part of the school. On a voyage in ship he had one idea to improve the revolver. He practiced this idea and in 1835-1836 he invented the revolver of six bullets Colt. In 1843 he invented the 1st naval mine by remote control. He died in Hartford the 10th of January 1862, when he was 47 years old.

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