God created men...

Samuel Colt was born 7-19-1814, 207 years ago. You can still buy his SA Peacemaker.

He lived 48 years.

"Samuel Colt invented, patented (worldwide), and manufactured to high standards at relatively low cost a personal weapon that placed the individual in a rough equality with the state, where, despite frantic attempts to annihilate that individual, he remains to this day—in no small part thanks to Samuel Colt." -Tony Daniel

 

Oh boy........

So much potential.

 

Def in on P1

 

Yep. John Browning was also a heck of an inventor.

 

Alfred Nobel made them look like pikers

 

He just new how to disassemble stuff rapidly.

 

Soichiro Honda was no slouch either.

 

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Yes, but different fields...

None greater than John Moses Browning. So far ahead of his time...

 

Colt started it. Browning dominated it.

 

October 21. One at a f'n time, please!

Good day sir!

 

Oppenheimer was much more equal than those other equalizers.

 

And to defy any attempts to reassemble

 

James Martin invented the ejector seat for aircraft.
Still in use today and apparently saved over 7000 lives.

Any pilots here ever needed to eject from a plane?

 

I wanna know the name of the man that invented the excuse.


...and don't forget Thomas Crapper.

 

Eh....I still like that Henry Ford and Edison were buddies . Got a tour of a henrys basement one day by a contractor and he had a 2 lane bowling alley down there.

Kellogg and jp also bring good stories to mind.

RIP mr. Colt

 

I didn't invent them, but I have a factory that runs 24/7.

 

In!

 

I'm enjoying how everyone has slept on his 50+-year old CVCC technology, and are only rediscovering it again like it's brand new tech, on everything from all the new turbo F1 cars to soon-to-be F-150s, and everything in between.

 

was about to post that Einstein was the bomb but remembered Oppenheimer

 

Actually, neither was the inventor. Now, Edward Teller and the H bomb is another story.