PBS
Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Samuel Colt
One-page profile of influential innovator, Samuel Colt, whose vision and ideas created the revolving pistol that was later used in the Mexican American War and the Texas Revolution.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Inventor of the Week: Sam Colt (1814 62)
Brief article, with biographical details, about Sam Colt's invention of the Colt revolver, the first weapon with a revolving cylinder that could hold six bullets.
Other
Colt Collectors Association: Colt's Life
A chronological list of events that happened in Samuel Colt's life and in the Colt company.
NSTATE
People of Connecticut: Samuel Colt
A biography about the maker of the pistol with a revolving cylinder.
