It is commonly thought that Samuel Colt invented the revolver in the mid-1800s. Whilst Colt certainly made the weapon popular and practical, the concept of multiple shots delivered by a revolving cylinder goes back much further in time. Here are two versions of the same gun, one authentic, the other a 20th-century copy. The original (top) was made by the London gunmaker J. Annely in the early 1700s, during the reign of Queen Anne.

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