Liberty Bell - How Pokies Started

The first mechanical pokies machine was invented by Charles Fey. This first mechanical pokies machine was developed in 1895. This machine was 3 reels. Hundred pounds cast iron was used to build this machine and there were ten symbols with diamond one the other hand heart or spade symbols was one the reels as well to a fractured liberty bell symbol.

This machine was very simple to use. The machines' payout would be up to 50 cents if any player line up all 5 liberty bells. Though there had machines which were dubbing games of possibility predating Liberty Bell, they not at all had the aptitude to actually prize a real payout. At present according to the laws, Fey was not capable to copyright his machine and agitated renting them to home saloons and a 50% hire fee, but he used signs for open drinks or awarded chewing gum to find around the gambling rules which forbidden gambling machines.

Invention of Detecting Pin:

After some years the operators started to face a problem because the players were using the fake coins. In order to prevent this kind of cheating Fey invented a detecting pin. This detecting pin was able to identify whether the coin is fake or real. His machine was becoming more famous and demandable.

Finding this kind of popularity other companies wanted to purchase the right of producing Liberty Bell but Fey didn't agree to sell. Herbert Mills an academic company which was able to create a duplicate of Liberty Bell. This was the 1st fruit slot machine the only dissimilarity between these two slot machines was that fruit slot machines Operator Bell was fruit symbol and it had twenty symbols on every reel.

Own Business of Fey:

Finally, Charles Fey started his own shop. The name of his own shop was Liberty Bell Saloon and the location was in Reno Nevada. He established a restaurant and a slot museum on the 2nd floor of the bar. In the museum there were a collection of more than two hundred traditional pokies. After the dead of Fey his grandson took his business but the bar was ended in 1995. At present the innovative Liberty Bell machines are also available. Though this machine is not played but it is still in museum of Reno Nevada.