Editing Revolver (section)

===Patents===
In 1815, (sometimes incorrectly dated as 1825) a French inventor called Julien Leroy patented a flintlock and percussion revolving rifle with a mechanically indexed cylinder and a priming magazine.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gapQAAAAYAAJ&q=Quinze+Coups&pg=PA20|title = Description des machines et procédés spécifiés dans les brevets d'invention, de perfectionnement et d'importation dont la durée est expirée, et dans ceux dont la déchéance a été prononcée, Volume 21, Issues 1793-1901 |date=1831 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LBcJiUD_148C&dq=Leroy+1815+Brevet+%09armes+%C3%A0+feu&pg=PA193 |title=Annales des arts et manufactures, ou Memoires technologiques sur les decouvertes modernes concernant les Arts, les Manufactures, l'Agriculture et le Commerce |date=1818 |language=fr |trans-title=Annals of Arts and Manufactures, or Technological Memoirs on Modern Discoveries Concerning the Arts, Manufactures, Agriculture and Commerce }}</ref>

[[Elisha Collier]] of Boston, Massachusetts, patented a flintlock revolver in Britain in 1818, and significant numbers were being produced in London by 1822.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pauly |first1=Roger A. |last2=Pauly |first2=Roger |title=Firearms: The Life Story of a Technology |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=izGOfMdSm2IC&pg=PA87 |date=2004 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-32796-4 |page=87 }}</ref> The origination of this invention is in doubt, as similar designs were patented in the same year by Artemus Wheeler in the United States, and by [[Cornelius Coolidge]] in France.<ref>{{cite book |author=The Diagram Group |title=The New Weapons of the World Encyclopedia: An International Encyclopedia from 5000 B.C. to the 21st Century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Il9ubyJCisC&pg=PA128 |date=2007 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0-312-36832-6 |page=128 |access-date=2025-03-14 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Taylerson |first1=A.W.F. |last2=Andrews |first2=R.A.N. |title=The Revolver 1818-1865 |date=1968 |publisher=Herbert Jenkins |location=London |pages=22–23}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last =Boothroyd |first=Geoffrey |title=The Handgun |date=1988 |publisher=The Sportsman's Press |location=London |isbn=0948253274 |page=110 |edition=Second }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Nicholson |first=Ben |title=Clockwork Basilisk: The Early Revolvers of Elisha Collier & Artemas Wheeler |date=2023 |publisher=Headstamp Press |location=Nashville, Tennessee |isbn=9781733424660}}</ref> Samuel Colt submitted a British patent for his revolver in 1835 and a U.S. patent (number 138) on February 25, 1836, for a ''Revolving gun'', and made the first production model on March 5 of that year.<ref>{{cite book |last=Gibby |first=Darin |title=Why America Has Stopped Inventing |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hUUjc7L-INIC&pg=PA84 |date=2011 |publisher=Morgan James Publishing |location=New York |isbn=978-1-61448-048-8 |page=84 }}</ref>

Another revolver patent was issued to Samuel Colt on August 29, 1839. The February 25, 1836, patent was then reissued as {{US patent|RE00124}} entitled ''Revolving gun'' on October 24, 1848. This was followed by {{US patent|0007613}} on September 3, 1850, for a ''Revolver'', and by {{US patent|0007629}} on September 10, 1850, for a ''Revolver''. In 1855, Rollin White patented the bored-through cylinder entitled ''Improvement in revolving fire-arms'' {{US patent|00093653}}. In 1856, Horace Smith & Daniel Wesson formed a partnership (S&W), then developed and manufactured a revolver chambered for a self-contained metallic cartridge.<ref>{{cite book |last=Cumpston |first=Mike |title=Percussion Pistols and Revolvers: History, Performance and Practical Use |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LQausfRgWvYC&pg=PA192 |date=2005 |publisher=iUniverse |isbn=978-0-595-35796-3 |pages=57–58 }}</ref> In 1993, {{US Patent|5333531}} was issued to [[Roger C. Field]] for an economical device for minimizing the flash gap of a revolver between the barrel and the cylinder.