The same year Texas won independence, gunmaker Samuel Colt patented the first practical revolving-cylinder handgun. By 1837, he was manufacturing the guns in Paterson, New Jersey, but his company ...

The USS New Jersey was commissioned in a ceremony on Sept. 14 and is the first fast-attack Virginia-class submarine in the Navy to fully integrate mixed gender crews.

Following up on his popular .36-caliber M1851 Navy, Colt introduced the more powerful .44-caliber Army. It proved the most widely used revolver of the Civil War. Nearly 130,000 were in service ...

The Navy has received the New Jersey, its 23rd Virginia-class fast-attack submarine. Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding division delivered the sub, the company announced in ...

The 1851 Navy soon found a ready market. Models exhibited at the Great Exhibition in London that year, alongside Dragoon and Pocket revolvers, were in such demand that Colt later established an ...

This lighter, smaller-caliber Navy model was popular with ranking army officers, including General George McClellan. The revolver was a present to McClellan from Samuel Colt, famed fire arms ...