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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Vending machine manufacturers, Mills Novelty Company, Stamp vending machine, Freestyle, Photo booth, Photo booth rental, Pranasys, Tower Optical, Fresh Healthy Vending, Tower viewer, BMI Gaming, Ticket machine, Gold to Go, Eu'Vend, Crane Co., Photo-Me International, Seaga Manufacturing, Dixie-Narco, Mold-A-Rama, Crane Merchandising Systems, Reverse vending machine, Penny arcade, Cigarette machine, Chargebox, Vendo, Gumball machine, Automated charging machine, Condom machine, HealthySYNC, Change machine, MEI, Ubicharge, Royal Vendors, Vend counter, U Select It, Gumball Gizmo, Let's Pizza, Glasco Polyvend Lektrovend, Folz Vending, Beaver Machine, Automatic Products. Excerpt: The Mills Novelty Company, Incorporated of Chicago, Illinois was once a leading manufacturer of coin operated machines, including slot machines, vending machines, and jukeboxes, in the United States. Between about 1905 and 1930, the company's products included the Mills Violano-Virtuoso and its predecessors, celebrated machines that automatically played a violin and, after about 1909, a piano. By 1944 the name of the company had changed to Mills Industries, Incorporated. The slot machine division was then owned by Bell-O-Matic Corporation. By the late 1930s, vending machines were being installed by Mills Automatic Merchandising Corporation of New York. The origins of the business lie with Mortimer Birdsul Mills, who was born in 1845 in Ontario, Canada but who later became a citizen of the United States, resident in Chicago, Illinois. Mortimer Mills would have 13 children. One son, Herbert Stephen Mills, was born in 1872 when his father was about 27. In 1892, Bert E. Mills, the youngest of Mortimer Mill's children was born. In about 1895, Fred L. Mills, the first of Herbert Mills' sons, was born. Ralph J. Mills, Herbert's second son, was born in Ju...
