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tv is featuring hartford connecticut. samuel clemens lived in hartford while writing the adventures of tom sawyer and the adventures of huckleberry finn. c-span cities to her staff recently visited the site. >> this collection came to the in 1957.connecticut it represents a flyover survey of american firearms in the 19th and 20th century. ands very heavy experimental prototypes where they are working out the design ideas. t was a hartford native and

had this incredible knack for three-dimensional thinking that he applied to firearms technology and was a consummate draftsman as well. number ofave a examples of these original watercolors and blueprints that he drew up to pay to others especially gunsmiths and mechanics that he hired to help him work up metal prototypes of his guns. to raise money for his vision, sam had a traveling medicine show. he engaged lyceum's in public calls up and down the east coast. dr. coult.n as and he would get people high with laughing gas and make fools in front of audiences. his travels up and down the

coast brought him in contact with john pearson in baltimore to engage him to work up with the prototypes with the earliest of the colts. be ready lucrative in large numbers. time, he was competing against the well-established pistols of the united states army. this was the model of 1836. this was adopted body armor from these troops. in big leather holsters. issuing two per soldier. in sammy's mind, if he could with six multi-firearm shots, once he could perfect that, he could make these

obsolete. upn pearson worked three-dimensional prototypes based on his watercolor drawings. prototypes they have actual examples and working models of handguns and up the long arms as well. he was able to convince relatives who are wealthy and connected in paterson, new jersey to build him a four story granite factory. he started from scratch. he had never been involved in making them in any kind of quantity. country -- the company was research and design and as a salesman for his product he was a great sales promoter. his frustration was he did not have the financial control that

he needed and he believed he was being nickeled and diamond by his relatives. looking at the case sets you can see how complicated the deal all these other accessories required to load a paterson pistol and the concept of the pattersons was you had to take them apart to load it. another problem was in the design. this was the recoil shield. this is just held to the frame of these two screws. .hey would crack and sheer a lot of the failures of the paterson revolvers was that they literally blew apart in some cases. in some cases, the whole part of the gun with separate from the frame. sometimes because of metallurgical problems or in proper loading or too much outer

, the chambers would burst. about 180navy bought of his holster revolvers and some of these ended up with texas rangers and because of that there was an officer samuel walker that contacted cold and said, he has a good idea here at with some improvements we can make it even better. between samuel walker and samuel cold, in 1847 or 1846, he came up with the idea of this really heavy revolver that eliminated a lot of the designs and manufacturing problems inherent in the paterson line of firearms. first and foremost, the recoil shield and the frame are all forged as one piece.

incredibly strong arrangement here. eliminated the prospects of the barrel and the cylinder literally blowing off the rest of the gun. fireda large bullet that a powder charge of about 60 grains of powder which was a tremendous amount. he claimed that up until he 357nt of the 357 -- of the. magnum this is one of the most powerful handguns in terms of shocking power and velocity. in the 1840's, sam returned to his hometown of hartford. a certain amount of family money and backing but nowhere on the rail -- the scale of paterson operations. at this time, he gets the u.s. army contract for the walker

revolvers. he doesn't have manufacturing plants but he contracts with eli whitney, junior in new haven. just about the time that eli whitney junior is producing the walker revolvers, sam is holding a four-story brick factory. and it is here that he begins his production of the so-called dragoon revolver. >> that is a collector term. it's basically the new model holster distal which reduces the barrel length. he sort -- he shortens the cylinder of little bit and puts a catch on the end of the ram or so each time you fire it doesn't drop down. the walker would have a tendency to do that. this is the one that attracted the interest of the u.s.

government from 1850 to 1858. the cult company manufactured and sold about 18,000 of these. after his first factory was constructed with four stories of brick, he needed even larger facility so he quietly bought up land in the south meadows. in the course of a couple of years, he made this the largest private armory at the time. stone,tories with round each floor with 30,000 square feet. it was a tremendous facility. the preeminent landmark in hartford along interstate 91. you can see it in the gold dome. it is absolutely in your face. int was part of the design sam colt's mind at the time. for this bold telling statement

and pronouncement presentation of self in factory. lates up and running by 1855. >> a major factor in his success was he surrounded himself with the brightest and best of the time period of the illegal representation. ek route who had learned his trade told manufacturing in collinsville was lured away i sam to be his main machinery guy. and production line. for reasons not clear to us, in 1857, ek route, retired from the company and goes off on his own. it lasted about eight years. it burned down.

it caught fire in 1864. we do not know the cause. the claim was made of an federate saboteurs but it was likely an oily rag in the corner. that was one of the many misfortunes that the fell the company. seth intest was sam 1862. they were able to hire ek route back to be the president and operator of the company. in 1865, ek route dies as well. between the fiscal plan and management, it's constant turnover. was a lady.lt she wanted the vision to continue. so she had the factory rebuilt. it was up and running in 1867.

to this date it's the best known firearms manufacturer around the globe. everybody knows that brand name. his showmanship and marketing skills. to a large extent they carried on that tradition to this day and age. >> our city store staff recently traveled to hartford connecticut to learn about its rich history. learn more about hartford and the other stops on our tour at c-span.org/citiestour. you are watching american history tv all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. on the roadkes you to the white house and into the classroom. cam year, our student documentary contest asks us to

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