![]() It is believed that Samuel Colt came up with the idea for the revolver while at sea, inspired by the ship's wheel. While many revolving chamber designs were tried, the first widely successful revolvers were based on mechanisms patented by Samuel Colt. Firing through a single barrel saved the expense and weight of having the multiple barrels of the Pepper-box. They were partly an attempt to improve on pepper-box type weapons, which used a revolving cylinder with one set of firing mechanisms, but which had multiple barrels as well. Revolver-type weapons are part of the long development of making better multi-shot weapons.
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