. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. hemistry, illustratingthe same with interesting experi-ments. With the proceeds of theselectures he retained and carried toperfection the ide
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. hemistry, illustratingthe same with interesting experi-ments. With the proceeds of theselectures he retained and carried toperfection the idea of the revolverthat he had formed on his journey tothe East Indies. In two years ofexperiment he had it so perfected asto obtain a patent for it in England,France and the United States, although he could not claim to be theoriginator of the idea of this kind of arms, as a model of the revolveris in the museum of the United States service instituti(m. that datesback in the period of making it to the time of Charles I., in thebeginning of the seventeenth century. In 1835 the ^Patent Arms Company, with a capital of $300,000,was formed at Paterson, N. J., for the manufacture of thisrevolver. The next thing was to get the weapon introduced. TheGovernment refused to use it for two years, and not until the Floridawar. when engaged in a contest against the Seminoles, was it used. Atthat time a regiment, armed with this revolver, did such efficient ser-. SAMUEL COLT, Inventor of Cults Patent Revolving Pistol, vice by their rapid firing without reloading, as to quickly vanquishthe enemy. That established the reputation of the revolver, but thewar closing, there was no further demand for patent firearms, and theArms Company, at Hartford, was compelled to wind up its affairs in1842. Five years afterwards, at the opening of the Mexican war, throughthe recommendation of General Taylor, the Government ordered athousand revolvers, for which they agreed to pay $28,000. Fittinup temporary shop
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