April 24, 2016

Liberty Bell Slots


Plaque honoring invention of the Liberty Bell slot machine by Charles Fey. Market Street, San Francisco, California, 2010.

"Charles August Fey began inventing and manufacturing slot machines in 1894. Fey pioneered many innovations of coin operated gaming devices in his San Francisco workshop at 406 Market Street, including the original three-reel bell slot slot machine in 1898. The international popularity of the bell slot machines attests to Fey's ingenuity as an enterprising inventor whose basic design of the three reel slot machine continues to be used in mechanical gaming devices today."


Liberty Bell slot machine. Displayed at San Francisco International Airport, 2010.

Photos by I. Peterson

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