In 1877, Charles Fey moved to France to work there, and spent some time in England too, before leaving for the United States at age twenty-three, where his uncle lived in New Jersey. As a teenager, Fey worked for a farming tool manufacturer, gaining his first skills, which heavily influenced his career. His father Karl worked as a sexton at the Ulm Minster cathedral and had fifteen children with Charles' mother Maria. American mechanic and inventor (1862–1944) Liberty Bell Slot Machine memorial, San FranciscoĬharles Fey (born August Fey in Vöhringen, Kingdom of Bavaria Septem – November 10, 1944) was a San Francisco mechanic best known for inventing the slot machine.Ĭareer and invention Fey's Liberty Bell slot machine
