. Hartford, Conn., as a manufacturing, business and commercial center; with brief sketches of its history, attractions, leading industries, and institutions ... CHENEY BUILDING (MAIN STREET).. I present /T\a9ufa<;t<jre$. COLTS PATENT FIRE ARMS MANUFACTURING COMPANY. AMUEL COLT, the pioneer in introducing into Hartford man-ufacturing on a large scale, through personal efforts, perpetu-ated and extended by the able assistants whom he calledaround him, communicated a very decided impulse to the modernindustrial system of the world. He was born in Hartford, July 19, 1814. At the age of ten h
. Hartford, Conn., as a manufacturing, business and commercial center; with brief sketches of its history, attractions, leading industries, and institutions ... CHENEY BUILDING (MAIN STREET).. I present /T\a9ufa<;t<jre$. COLTS PATENT FIRE ARMS MANUFACTURING COMPANY. AMUEL COLT, the pioneer in introducing into Hartford man-ufacturing on a large scale, through personal efforts, perpetu-ated and extended by the able assistants whom he calledaround him, communicated a very decided impulse to the modernindustrial system of the world. He was born in Hartford, July 19, 1814. At the age of ten heentered his fathers factory at Ware, Mass., and at fourteen wassent to a boarding school at Amherst, but preferring to gain knowl-edge in a broader field he shipped before the mast for Calcutta, inJuly, 1827, and on the voyage made a model which held the germsof the future revolver. Returning home, he again entered his fathersmill, where, under the tuition of Wm. T. Smith, a chemist in charge ofthe dyeing and bleaching department, he obtained a practical ac-quaintance with chemistry, becoming quite expert as a the age of eighteen, with the knowledge and dexterity acquir
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