February 25: Samuel Colt Finally Gets His Shot at Success.

  Today in 1836, Hartford inventor Samuel Colt — after being expelled from school, sailing the seas, and touring as a showman demonstrating the unusual effects of nitrous oxide, or &#822…

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February 4: In Wartime, the Colt Arms Factory Is Destroyed By a Suspicious Fire

  Just after 8 a.m. on the morning of February 4, 1864, as the Civil War was nearing  the end of the  third year of the nation’s most violent and divisive  conflict, the loud, sharp, incessant…

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