Electric guitars were first used during the 1930s, today an electric guitar can be found in almost every rock band.<\/p>\n
A great online feature about the invention of the electric guitar can be found at the site of the Lemelson Center:<\/p>\n
Sometimes, but typically it is a far more complex process. Amplifying the sound of a guitar by means of electricity, for example, involved many inventors and musicians working since the 1920s to develop, design, and popularize a louder instrument.<\/p>\n
The electric guitar may be the most important and popular instrument of the last half-century in American music. Certainly its introduction brought a major change to American musical technology and has shaped the sound and direction of modern musical styles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
http:\/\/invention.smithsonian.org\/centerpieces\/electricguitar\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n
About the Lemelson Center<\/h4>\n
The Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation was founded in 1995 at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History through a generous gift from the Lemelson Foundation<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n
The Lemelson Center\u2019s mission:<\/strong><\/p>\n
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- To document, interpret, and disseminate information about invention and innovation<\/li>\n
- To encourage inventive creativity in young people<\/li>\n
- To foster an appreciation for the central role of invention and innovation in the history of the United States<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n
In the archive of British Pathe<\/strong> you can find movies with some of the first electric guitars in the world. I have previously written about those videos (see below). For this post I have selected a movie about the making of an electric guitar in Great Britain in 1965:<\/p>\n
GUITAR FACTORY (1965)<\/h4>\n