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Sinking the Navy: Meet the Adams Revolver, Samuel Colt’s English-made, self-cocking competition.
There’s a great story that’s circulated for years. It goes thusly: During Britain’s Great International Exposition of the Works of Industry of all Nations in 1851, Samuel Colt was invited to give a lecture to the Institution of Civil Engineers. While Colt was extolling the virtues of his repeating pistol, an Englishman, Robert Adams, stood up, brandished one of his own designs and began a counter-lecture on the attributes of his “self-cocking” revolver. Chaos ...
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