SUPER 8LINES LIBERTY BELL SLOT Machine for Pachinko Pachi-Slot fan, and single Medal Machine fan! 8LINES VIDEO SLOT is appeared! Features - CROSS BELL BONUS STAGE - BONUS GAME STAGE - 7 BINGO BONUS - Winning seven consecutive BONUS - SYMBOL HIT COMPLETE BONUS - BELL. 1895: Charles Fey Makes the Liberty Bell Car mechanic Charles Fey is widely regarded as the inventor of the first mechanical slot machine, although there is quite a bit discrepancy surrounding the year he made the first cast iron Liberty Bell. It was the first slot machine.
Everyone can agree on who invented the slot machine, but there is some dispute over when this took place. Charles Fey is believed to have perfected his invention in either 1887 or 1895, although today’s slots have little in common with the original machines that were actually based on cards.
However, Fey did not start his life wanting to invent a slot machine. The inventor was actually born in Bavaria in a family with 15 older siblings. At fourteen, he began to work to help out his family, but he also began to fear being drafted into the German army. That, along with growing tension between him and his father, led to Fey going to France to work as an instrument maker.
Charles’ uncle had made it to New Jersey in America and so, at the age of 23, Fey decided to join his uncle. Before traveling to New Jersey, though, he went to San Francisco, where he found employment at Electric Works. He and a co-worker then started a company that competed with their employer and it was while working in his own business that he invented the slot machine.
The Slot Machine Is Born
Fey’s machine had three reels and his symbols were the familiar diamonds, hearts, and spades, with the added horseshoes and a Liberty Bell. His iconic machine actually took its name from this symbol. It wasn’t too difficult to read a win on the early slot machine, and lining up three Liberty Bells offered players the highest payout. The fact that the machine had an automatic payout was novel and soon made it a hot commodity. In fact, Liberty Bell was so well received that many copycat machines soon began to appear.
One-armed bandits became the pet name for the slot machines, but that didn’t slow down the players or their popularity. It mattered little that California, where Fey eventually made his home, outlawed the slot machine a few years after its creation, because he could hardly keep up with the demand in other states.
Laws in place at the time also prevented Fey from getting a patent on his invention, which is why he rented them out to pubs, barbershops, bowling alleys, saloons, cigar stores, and many other places before government controls came into existence. Over time players began cheating the machine by using fake coins (wooden nickels), so Fey countered by inventing the first detecting pin, which could differentiate between fake and real coins.
Slot Machine History Is Made
In 1896, Fey opened the Slot Machine Factory, and the rest is gambling history. His partner was given the electric franchise, but he too began to make slot machines when they became popular. Fey went on to marry a native Californian and they had three daughters and a son (Edmund). Edmund had three sons, two of which moved to Reno in 1958 and opened the Liberty Bell Saloon, which closed in 1995. The bar displayed many of the old slot machines, which of course included their grandfather’s Liberty Bell slot. The original Liberty Bell is not in play anymore but can be viewed in a Reno museum. Fey retired at the age of 82, and died 10 months later of pneumonia.
When he died Fey had made a huge impact on the gambling industry, but he probably never imagined just how much gambling history his invention would go on to make.
The Liberty Bell was the first variation of the modern mechanical slot machine we see today, originally being referred to as a 'fruit machine' or 'one-armed bandit'. Created in 1894 by Charles Fey (1862–1944), a car mechanic from San Francisco, the Liberty Bell's popularity set the standard for the modern slot machine; its three-reel model is still used today despite great advances in slot technology over the past several decades. An original Liberty Bell slot machine is currently on display at the Liberty Belle saloon in Reno, Nevada as a historic artifact.[1]
How it worked[edit]
Each of Liberty Bell's three reels were imprinted with a symbol of a diamond, heart, spade, horseshoe, star and a cracked Liberty Bell. Once the player deposited a nickel, he could pull the lever on the side of the machine and the reels would begin to spin, stopping on any random combination of symbols. If the same symbol appeared on all three reels a bell would ring and the player would be awarded with coins. Three Liberty Bells offered the largest payout of fifty cents (10 nickels), which was ejected by the machine.[1]
Payouts[edit]
The payouts for the Liberty Bell were as follows:
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- 2 horseshoes = 5 cents
- 2 horseshoe + 1 star = 10 cents
- 3 spades = 20 cents
- 3 diamonds = 30 cents
- 3 hearts = 40 cents
- 3 Liberty Bells = 50 cents
Popularity[edit]
In 1907, with the growing popularity and demand for the Liberty Bell, the Mills Novelty Company began manufacturing the 'Mills Liberty Bell'.[2]
History Of Slot Machines
In 1910 the company introduced a slight variation of the Liberty Bell, called the Operator Bell. Changes such as a gooseneck coin acceptor and fruit symbols to replace the traditional images became a standard for slot machines for decades to come, and over 30,000 of these machines were produced. In 1915 the company then began manufacturing a less expensive version of the Operator Bell, replacing the heavy cast iron machines with ones made out of lighter wooden cabinets.[2]
In the early 1930s the Mills Novelty company made additional changes to their line of slot machines. First, they designed it so that their machines were much more quieter, which eventually gave the machines the name 'silent bells'. Secondly, they created a line of themed wooden cabinets each with its own unique design, the first being Lion Head released in 1931.[3]
It was this time in the 1930s that slot machines saw a rise of popularity in America. In the late 1940s Bugsy Siegel added slot machines to his Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, initially as a way to entertain the wives and girlfriends of high rollers. Soon the revenue generated from these machines matched those of the table games.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ abInventors.about.com, The History of Slot Machines-Liberty Bell.
- ^ abSlot Machines Payout, Slot Machine History.
- ^ abSlot Tips Guide, The History of Slot Machines.