Charles Fey, born in 1862, and died in 1944, was the creator of the Liberty Bell, which is the forerunner of all of the numerous slot machines that would be created in the next hundred years to come. It is this kind of slot machine that has these days developed into what is known as the modern casino slot machines.
Charles Fey, the inventor of the original slot machine, was born in Vohringen, which is a small village in Bavaria, on February second, in the year 1862, as August Fey. He had fifteen elder siblings.
Work life of Charles Fey
He went to join his older sibling, Edmund Fey, during a vacation from school, when Charles Fey was fourteen years of age, to work in a farm tool factory, which was located in Munich. It was in this very farm tool factory, Munich, that Charles Fey first realized his inclination towards mechanical implements.
When he returned home from Munich, he faced the difficulties of staying in the household of his father, who was very strict. Charles Fey also faced the difficulty of being drafted in to the German army. Among all of this, Charles Fey, naturally, found that the opportunities that were available in the Americas were more than appealing. He was still known as August Fey, and he decided to follow in the footsteps of his uncle, Martin Vollman, who had previously immigrated to the Americas, and had settled in New Jersey around the decade of 1850's.
August Fey left his home when he was merely fifteen years of age, and then he preceded to France, where he found himself with the job with a manufacturer of intercom equipment. August Fey managed to save up enough money so as to be able for crossing the English Channel, and from then onwards, he stayed in London, but only for the succeeding five years. August Fey worked in London as a maker of nautical instruments and continuously he saved for his passage to the Americas.
August Fey saved up adequate money and finally he sailed to the Americas. He reached New York and stayed with the family of his uncle for a short while, before they left for Germany. August Fey, with no family to stay with, after his uncle's family left, decided to travel to California, which was less harsh when compared to the winters of New York.
First Slot Machine
August Fey reached San Francisco in 1885 and worked as a mechanist. He managed to recover from Tuberculosis and permanently joined the California Electric Works Company when he was twenty five years old.
August Fey married Marie Volkmar and then, for Americanizing his name, he changed it to Charles Fey, from the original August Fey, in the year 1889.
Charles Fey built his very first slot machine in 1894, which was three wheel machine.
