On February 25, 1836, American inventor Samuel Colt obtained a patent for the five-shot revolver.
The revolver design began as early as the flintlock era in 1718. However, early revolvers mostly used multiple barrels and were very bulky, or could not prevent the revolver from reversing. So it has no great practical value.
In 1835, American Samuel Colt improved the design of his predecessors and obtained patents from the United Kingdom and the United States. Due to Colt's sales skills and the fact that the United States was not like Europe at that time because of confidentiality, State-owned or monopolized private arsenals monopolize all new firearm technologies, so Colt's name can be passed down to the world, so that later generations equate him with revolvers, and Colt is even mistakenly regarded as the first The inventor of the revolver.
In fact, in 1718, the British lawyer James Puckle invented the Puckle Gun, which was loaded with 9 rounds. The British Elisha Currier ( Elisha Collier obtained a British patent for the revolving flint gun in 1818.