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WHAT IT WAS MADE FOR Book 1

By Ottilie Kestenholz · 4 parts · 15 h 22 min · English

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Hartford, Paterson, the Texas border and London, 1814 to 1862. Samuel Colt did not invent the revolving pistol. He patented a workable one at twenty-one, lost the company built on it within six years, and spent the next decade selling laughing gas, underwater mines and himself. A government order for a thousand pistols in 1847 gave him a second company, and he built that one on machines rather than on gunsmiths. By 1862 the Hartford armory under its blue dome was the largest private arms works in the world and its founder was dead at forty-seven, having sold to Texas, to Britain, to Russia and to the seceding South. What the record will not settle is what he thought he was making. Covers Samuel Colt and Patent Arms Manufacturing Company of Paterson, New Jersey.

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  1. Part 01

    4:00:11

  2. Part 02

    3:47:58

  3. Part 03

    3:53:35

  4. Part 04

    3:40:24

Books in this series

  1. WHAT IT WAS MADE FOR Book 1

    4 parts · 15 h 22 min

  2. WHAT IT WAS MADE FOR Book 2

    4 parts · 14 h 47 min

  3. WHAT IT WAS MADE FOR Book 3

    4 parts · 15 h 35 min

  4. WHAT IT WAS MADE FOR Book 4

    4 parts · 15 h 27 min

  5. WHAT IT WAS MADE FOR Book 5

    4 parts · 15 h 9 min

  6. WHAT IT WAS MADE FOR Book 6

    4 parts · 17 h 45 min