# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elisha-collier
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:14:42.672Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elisha-collier"
name: "Elisha Collier"
slug: "elisha-collier"
description: "Elisha Haydon Collier (1788–1856) of Boston, Massachusetts, invented a flintlock revolver around 1818. It is one of the earliest true revolvers, after the 1739's revolver of Iaumandreu from Manresa and 1702's of Rovira from Ripoll, exhibited in the Armouries of the Tower of London, in contrast to the earlier pepperboxes which were multi-barreled guns. Collier's revolver was not self rotating but it was self-priming: a compartment automatically released gunpowder into the pan when the hammer was cocked."
tagline: "American inventor of the flintlock revolver"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1788"
deathDate: "1856-01-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.94
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.893774666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "الیشا کولیر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Collier"
    title: "Elisha Collier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B4%D8%A7_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "إليشا كولير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B4%D8%A7_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "اليشا كولير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Collier"
    title: "Elisha Collier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Collier"
    title: "Elisha Collier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Collier"
    title: "Elisha Collier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Collier"
    title: "Elisha Collier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Collier"
    title: "Elisha Collier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Collier"
    title: "Elisha Collier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Collier"
    title: "Elisha Collier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Collier"
    title: "Elisha Collier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q658243"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump