On February 25, 1836, inventor Samuel Colt received a US patent for the Colt revolver. "Сolt" is translated from English as "foal", the image of which has become the trademark of the arms company. Starting his own business, Samuel didn't take loans, but made money on an unusual trip. He entertained provincial audiences with a demonstration of the effects on humans of the so-called "laughing gas" (nitrous oxide). Horace Wells, a dentist who accidentally saw his show, was later the first to use nitrous oxide as a pain reliever. When Samuel Colt died suddenly in 1862, he was buried at public expense, although he owned a fortune of 15 million then (approximately 900 million today) dollars. The inventor was taken on his last journey, firing into the air with revolvers of his production. According to a local newspaper reporter, "the cannonade was like on a battlefield" ...
