Colt was also inspired by Eli Whitney (inventor of the cotton gin and one of the innovators of mass production), who in 1798 started a Massachusetts factory focused on building rifles with interchangeable parts for the U.S. Colt, who was from nearby Hartford, Connecticut, said that the innovations in his design were inspired by Collier's basic idea - which is part of the reason that he patented his design in England a year before patenting it the U.S. In 1818, 17 years prior to Colt's English patent for the revolver (1835), Boston's Elisha Collier patented a flintlock revolver in England, which was primarily used by the British army. Colt apparently never claimed to have invented the revolver, although he was the one who modified it in a way that made it successful. The question in the movie was "Who invented the revolver?", but this phrasing is more accurate.
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