The man who inspired this common saying among the nineteenth century was the brain behind one of the world’s most famous handgun’s. He was born Samuel Colt in Hartford, Connecticut in 1814, the son of Christopher and Sarah Colt. He married Elizabeth Jarvis in 1856 and together the couple had four children. Colt’s father’s textile business failed when he was a young boy. At the age of seven, Samuel was intrigued by guns. While the other young boys were outside playing or fighting, Sam could be found taking apart his father’s handguns and rifles and then very careful putting them back together. He attended Amherst Academy, where he designed a fireworks display for Fourth of July celebrations. The project misfired both literally and figuratively; the school building burned to the ground. According to legend, when he was a teenager, Sam got a job as a ship hand on a boat headed for India. While at sea, he carved a wooden model of a handgun with a revolving chamber. It is said that he was inspired by the wheel of the ship that he was traveling on. He noticed that when the wheel was turned, a clutch aligned the spokes and linked the wheel in place.

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