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Samuel Colt

Samuel Colt

American inventor and industrialistWikipedia

Search complete. 6 mentions across 6 episodes found for "Samuel Colt".

Sep 29, 2026

Bryan BurroughHOST
8:29
None of them were all that great.
Bryan BurroughHOST
8:32
Then, in 1831, a 17-year-old merchant seaman named Samuel Colt dreamed up a new design.
Bryan BurroughHOST
8:40
Colt was this New England kid who loved to blow things up.
Bryan BurroughHOST
8:43
When one of his pranks got him expelled from school, his father had him sent off to sea.
Kris ClewellHOST
14:13
This guy's gluing shoe soles.
Kris ClewellHOST
14:16
After Springfield, he went to Colt in Hartford, where Sam Colt's revolvers had been coming off the line with interchangeable parts since before the war.
Kris ClewellHOST
14:24
And then to Brown and Sharp in Providence.
Kris ClewellHOST
14:27
The company made the micrometers that everybody else measured with.
Greg HenglerCORRESPONDENT
3:39
It was the most powerful handgun in the world for an impressive 88 years from its introduction in 1847 until the 357 Magnum cartridge hit the scene in 1935.
Greg HenglerCORRESPONDENT
3:53
It also saved Samuel Colt from bankruptcy after his first commercial revolver design tanked.
Greg HenglerCORRESPONDENT
3:59
So what's the deal with the gun's name? Captain Samuel Hamilton Walker of the Texas Rangers began his military career at 19 with a brief stint with the Washington City Volunteers during the Creek Indian Campaign in 1836 in Alabama.
Greg HenglerCORRESPONDENT
4:18
He then traveled to Florida as a scout and finally ended up in Texas in 1841.
speaker_0HOST
13:20
John reveals the fruit of his decades-long obsession.
speaker_0HOST
13:24
He has uncovered the existence of a legendary weapon created by Samuel Colt in 1835, a mythical revolver and 13 special bullets capable of killing absolutely anything in existence, including the yellow-eyed demon.
speaker_0HOST
13:38
John's entire life's work has narrowed down to securing this gun and using it to destroy the demon once and for all, no matter what it costs him personally.
speaker_0HOST
13:50
Ooh, it does.
SnookHOST
62:50
I was prepared.
SnookHOST
62:52
I had camping gear, emergency gear, a satellite phone, plenty of food and water, enough jerry cans for the trip there and back, and Sam Colt's greatest invention in the center console.
SnookHOST
63:04
Just in case.
SnookHOST
63:06
For the unfamiliar, that's the 1911.
Lorne GreeneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
3:24
His name is Clarence Dayton, and he writes for the Boston Herald.
Lorne GreeneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
3:29
His pen has made heroes of more men than Samuel Colt's six-gun ever did.
Lorne GreeneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
3:36
He looks a little out of place in this small Kansas town of Smokes End, but he didn't intend to be here.
Lorne GreeneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
3:42
His train broke down, and he's merely waiting for another one.

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