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"Look! Our machines are open for inspection! One winning hand only." #GamesOfChance This tweet was posted on April 12, 2017.

"You win every time" The Little Monte Carlo allowed five-way play with payouts determined by the color played. #GamesofChance This tweet was posted on June 01, 2017.

@HerEph @united Thanks for stopping by! The machines from #GamesofChance were on loan from the Joe Welch American Antique Museum. https://t.co/SGiUJdY1RE This tweet was posted on July 03, 2017.

@Sarahlthomas151 "#GamesofChance: Gambling Devices of the Mechanical Age" will be on display until mid-June. https://t.co/SGiUJdGr06 This tweet was posted on March 27, 2017.

@mongster Thank you for stopping by! We hope you enjoyed our exhibition! #GamesofChance https://t.co/SGiUJdY1RE This tweet was posted on June 15, 2017.

@pheayre "#GamesofChance: Gambling Devices of the Mechanical Age" will be on display in Terminal 3 until June 2017! https://t.co/SGiUJdY1RE This tweet was posted on February 14, 2017.

A mechanical device patented by Harry Hoke, Jr., required the player to flip a steel ball into a snake’s mouth before the machine would pay out—a feature billed as “Compulsory Skill Control” on the body of the machine. This image was posted on February 24, 2017.

A wide range of gambling devices employed dice that were “tossed” under glass domes. This image was posted on May 25, 2017. #slotmachines #gambling #antique #dices #poker #craps

Although single-lever slot machines were referred to as “one-armed bandits” as early as the 1930s, the term became more literal in the late 1940s when saloons and casinos featured the gambling devices in the bodies of elaborately carved characters to attract the attention of patrons. This image was posted on March 28, 2017. #onearmedbandit #frankpolk #sculptures #basswood #bronze #mechanicalage #saloons #slotmachine

Author Roger Kislingbury pursues early saloon photographs, sharing his passion for the subject in the hardbound publications Saloons, Bars & Cigar Stores: Historical Interior Photographs (1999) and American Saloons: Pre-Prohibition Photographs (2015). This image was posted on February 06, 2017.

Charles Fey had been making coin-operated machines in SF for nearly 10 years prior to creating his Liberty Bell in 1898. #GamesofChance This tweet was posted on January 11, 2017.

During the 1940s and '50s, #FrankPolk carved nearly 100 life-sized figures to house slot machines. #GamesofChance This tweet was posted on March 27, 2017.

During the late 1890s, as machining became prevalent and mechanical appliances were increasingly accessible, slot machine companies proliferated. This image was posted on June 01, 2017. #slotmachines #vintage #gambling #castiron

Early mechanical gambling devices employed a variety of clever actions to induce patrons to drop their coins & try their luck #GamesofChance This tweet was posted on January 30, 2017.

Games of Chance: Gambling Devices of the Mechanical Age

This nonaviation exhibition was on display between December 2016 and June 2017 in the F-02 North Connector gallery, located in Terminal 3

In no part of the world did gambling take place so openly and on such a large scale than in San Francisco during the Victorian era. This image was posted on December 22, 2016.

Inventor Charles Fey had been making coin-operated machines in San Francisco for nearly ten years prior to creating his Liberty Bell in 1898. This image was posted on January 11, 2017. #sfhistory #charlesfey

Learn more about inventor Charles Fey in "#GamesofChance", on display, post-security, in T3. https://t.co/SGiUJdGr06 This tweet was posted on January 11, 2017.

Many color-wheel and roulette-based gambling devices were ornate and cast-iron for saloons and cigar stores. #GamesofChance This tweet was posted on June 01, 2017.

Our newest exhibition, "#GamesofChance: Gambling Devices of the Mechanical Age", opens tomorrow post-security in T3. https://t.co/SGiUJdGr06 This tweet was posted on December 09, 2016.

Prior to the predominance of the three-reel, automatic-payout slot machine, early mechanical gambling devices employed a variety of clever actions to induce patrons to drop their coins and try their luck. This image was posted on January 30, 2017.

RT @onthebass: @SFOMuseum your current exhibition #GamesOfChance is awesome. Thnx for not being a standard boring airport #SFO #gaming #pok… This tweet was posted on February 28, 2017.

SF-based machinists and inventors Theodore Holtz & Charles Fey were pioneers in the development of early gambling devices. #GamesofChance This tweet was posted on January 26, 2017.

Saloon proprietors could easily examine claims for winning hands through the window on this Oakland-made gambling machine. #GamesofChance This tweet was posted on March 13, 2017.

San Francisco-based machinists and inventors Theodore Holtz and Charles Fey were important pioneers in the development of early gambling devices. This image was posted on January 26, 2017. #sfhistory #charlesfey #theodoreholtz

See "#GamesofChance: Gambling Devices of the Mechanical Age" and on display, post-security, in Terminal 3. https://t.co/SGiUJdGr06 This tweet was posted on January 30, 2017.

See "#GamesofChance: Gambling Devices of the Mechanical Age" on display, post-security, in Terminal 3. https://t.co/SGiUJdGr06 This tweet was posted on January 26, 2017.

See "#GamesofChance: Gambling Devices of the Mechanical Age" on display, post-security, in Terminal 3. https://t.co/SGiUJdGr06 This tweet was posted on March 27, 2017.

See "#GamesofChance: Gambling Devices of the Mechanical Age" on display, post-security, in Terminal 3. https://t.co/SGiUJdGr06 This tweet was posted on June 01, 2017.

See "#GamesofChance: Gambling Devices of the Mechanical Age", on display, post-security, in Terminal 3. https://t.co/SGiUJdGr06 This tweet was posted on March 13, 2017.

See "#GamesofChance: Gambling Devices of the Mechanical Age", on display, post-security, in Terminal 3. https://t.co/SGiUJdGr06 This tweet was posted on February 24, 2017.

Some of the photographs featured in "The American Saloon: Historical Photographs from the Collection of Roger E. Kislingbury" capture the usage of objects similar to those on display in "#GamesofChance: Gambling Devices of the Mechanical Age". This image was posted on April 24, 2017.

The Liberty Bell, the first auto-payout, 3-reel machine, was an instant success in 1898 & set the standard for slot machines. #GamesofChance This tweet was posted on January 11, 2017.

The first automatic-payout, three-reel slot machine was invented by Charles Fey in 1898 in San Francisco. #GamesofChance #DayofFacts This tweet was posted on February 17, 2017.