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Revolver or revolver runner design began as early as the flintlock era 17 18. James Puckle, an English lawyer, published Puckle Le Gun with nine bullets, and Irina Kaptelova Collier, an Englishman, even published it at 18 18. However, the early revolvers were mostly multi-tube heavy, or they could not prevent the revolvers from reversing, so they were of little practical value.
1835 American colt improved his predecessor's design and obtained patents from Britain and the United States. Because of his excellent marketing skills and the fact that the United States didn't monopolize all new gun technologies because of European secrecy at that time, Colt was able to spread all over the world in his name, so that later generations equated him with a revolver, and Colt was even mistaken as the inventor of the first revolver.
At that time, because of patents and secrecy laws, different manufacturers often invented similar designs independently. Sometimes some gun factories were forced to give up the market closure because they could not afford the patent right or could not wait for the patent right to expire, which made the public misunderstand who was the first inventor.
Although the appearance of Colt revolver is similar to that of modern revolver, and it uses similar mechanical structure to rotate and fire, its firing mechanism is still suitable for similar front-loaded shotgun ammunition at the end of18th century, that is, the so-called fire cap and mercury gun, which makes each firing time shorter. But every time the bullets are exhausted, they are still filled with gunpowder bags like the early "muskets", so Colt invented a cover in front of the magazine and directly filled it with bulk ammunition. Later, he also developed a front-mounted revolver that was suitable for the most advanced paper or cloth ammunition at that time.
Early pistols can only be fired once, so when there is a reliable repeating pistol, it will have an overwhelming advantage. Shi Mifu prestige (Smith &; Wesson's brass fixed-shell ammunition and Adams' double-action bolt machine became the weapons of pioneers in the western United States, which played a decisive advantage over Indian bows and arrows that could only be used in batches before. This also led European colonists to use it in colonial wars in Africa and the Far East. Even a civilian has an absolute advantage in personal battles with aborigines and local civilized people who only have bows and arrows and early muskets.