The earliest revolver appeared in16th century. However, until the19th century, the application scope of the matchlock and flintlock guns which need to be rotated manually was limited. /kloc-at the beginning of the 0/9th century, after the appearance of firing pistol, people carried out important reforms on revolvers: the rotation of the revolver was linked to the action of the firing machine. 1835, American s colt invented the world's first revolver with practical value on the basis of the original revolver, which was widely used and patented in Britain. This revolver uses a primer impact gun and a rifled barrel, and uses a paper shell bullet with a conical warhead. Therefore, Colt was praised by Americans as "the father of revolvers".
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Since then, Colt and others have made many improvements on revolvers. 1853, revolvers use metal bullets; 1868, the revolver was improved into a rear-loaded pistol. From the 1950s of 19, in the armies of most countries, the new revolver has replaced the muzzle-loaded pistol.
At the beginning of last century, revolvers were gradually replaced by automatic pistols.