the revolver with interchangeable parts was invented in 1856.
the revolver with interchangeable parts was invented in 1856.
when was the revolver with interchangeable parts invented?
1856
samuel colt received a british patent on his improved design for a revolver in 1835, and two u.s. patents in 1836, one on february 25 (later numbered u.s. patent 9430x) and another on august 29 (). that same year, he founded his first corporation for its manufacture, the patent arms manufacturing company of paterson, new jersey, colt's patent. the first firearm manufactured at the new paterson plant, however, was the colt first model ring lever rifle beginning in 1837. this was followed shortly thereafter in late 1837 by the introduction of the colt paterson. this corporation suffered quality problems in production. making firearms with interchangeable parts was still rather new (it had reached commercial viability only about a decade before), and it was not yet easy to replicate across different factories. interchangeability was not complete in the paterson works, and traditional gunsmithing techniques did not fill the gap entirely there. the colt paterson revolver found patchy success and failure; some worked well, while others had problems. the united states marine corps and united states army reported quality problems with these earliest colt revolvers. production had ended at the new jersey corporation by 1842.
colt's manufacturing company
a major u.s. contribution to industrialisation was the development of techniques to make interchangeable parts from metal. precision metal machining techniques were developed by the u.s. department of war to make interchangeable parts for small firearms. the development work took place at the federal arsenals at springfield armory and harpers ferry armory. techniques for precision machining using machine tools included using fixtures to hold the parts in proper position, jigs to guide the cutting tools and precision blocks and gauges to measure the accuracy. the milling machine, a fundamental machine tool, is believed to have been invented by eli whitney, who was a government contractor who built firearms as part of this program. another important invention was the blanchard lathe, invented by thomas blanchard. the blanchard lathe, or pattern tracing lathe, was actually a shaper that could produce copies of wooden gun stocks. the use of machinery and the techniques for producing standardised and interchangeable parts became known as the american system of manufacturing.
industrial revolution