{"id":961,"date":"2015-10-31T22:50:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T02:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/?page_id=961"},"modified":"2016-07-18T08:21:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T12:21:44","slug":"samuel-colt","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/project\/samuel-colt\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Colt"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brother Samuel Colt<\/strong><\/p>\n July 19th 1814 \u2013 January 10th 1862<\/span><\/p>\n Member of:<\/p>\n St. John’s Lodge No. 4 <\/a>in West Hartford, CT<\/p>\n American inventor and industrialist from Hartford, Connecticut. He founded Colt’s Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company (today, Colt’s Manufacturing Company<\/a>), and made the mass production of the revolver commercially viable.<\/p>\n Colt’s manufacturing methods were at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution. His use of interchangeable parts helped him become one of the first to exploit the assembly line. Moreover, his innovative use of art, celebrity endorsements and corporate gifts to promote his wares made him a pioneer in the fields of advertising, product placement and mass marketing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Samuel Colt Wikipedia Page<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”https:\/\/eb1870.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Brother_Samuel_Colt.jpg” alt=”Famous Freemason Samuel Colt” show_in_lightbox=”on” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brother Samuel Colt July 19th 1814 \u2013 January 10th 1862 Member of: St. John’s Lodge No. 4 in West Hartford, CT American inventor and industrialist from Hartford, Connecticut. He founded Colt’s Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company (today, Colt’s Manufacturing Company), and made the mass production of the revolver commercially viable. Colt’s manufacturing methods were at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":" <\/a><\/p> Brother Samuel Colt<\/p> Member of St. John's Lodge No. 4<\/p> West Hartford, CT<\/p>