Colt’s guns were built on an assembly line. In an 1836 letter to his father, Colt said of the process, “The first workman would receive two or three of the most important parts and would affix these and pass them
1929: Introduction of first-known example of low-pressure tundra tires for aviation, invented by Alvin J. Musselman as Goodyear "Airwheels" 1935: Acquired Kelly-Springfield Tire 1937: First American-made synthetic rubber tire 1940: In December, Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation dissolved with WWII ...
Samuel Colt was an American firearms inventor, manufacturer, and entrepreneur who popularized the revolver. As a teenaged seaman, Colt carved a wooden model of a revolving cylinder mechanism, and he later perfected a working version that was patented in