Daniel Leavitt (November 16, 1813 – July 27, 1859)[a] was an early American inventor who, with his partner Edwin Wesson, patented the first revolver after Samuel Colt's,[2] and subsequently manufactured one of the first American revolving pistols.[3] The innovative design[4] was manufactured only briefly before a patent suit by Colt forced the company to stop producing the Leavitt & Wesson Dragoon revolver. But Leavitt's early patents, and those of his partner Wesson, stoked competition and helped drive the technological and manufacturing boom that produced the modern firearms industry.
^US 24394, Leavitt, Daniel, "Improvement in breech-loading fire-arms", published 1859-06-14
^Awards, United States World's Columbian Commission Committee on (1901). World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill., 1893. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 1211. Retrieved 19 November 2018 – via Internet Archive. wesson .
^"Massachusetts Arms Company Wesson & Leavitt Patent Dragoon Revolver, Artfact, artfact.com". Retrieved 19 November 2018.
^Samuel Colt's first patent was granted in February, 1836, and Leavitt's granted shortly afterwards, in April 1837, indicating that both Colt and Leavitt were simultaneously working on designs for a new revolver. Leavitt's patent was granted before Colt had manufactured a single pistol, indicating that Leavitt was working on his own, without a Colt prototype to study.[1]
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