Adolph Rickenbacker, who immigrated to the U.S. from Switzerland as a child, invented the electric guitar in the 1930s, the instrument that inspired the rock 'n' roll phenomenon.

George Beauchamp, who designed the very first crude electric guitar right in his house, played Hawaiian guitar, and according to guitar historian Richard Smith, Hawaiian music as a genre was a key ...

Somehow, we still don't really know who invented the electric guitar. Recently, this mystery drew the world's foremost experts to the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum in Kansas.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland added a Rickenbacker Frying Pan A25 lap steel guitar to its collection on Wednesday, July 20, 2022. It's considered the first electric guitar.

Although it was not the first electric guitar ever invented, it was one of the newest electrified instruments to the music scene. The Log, a 4×4 piece of lumber with a bridge, ...

You know the Gibson Les Paul: It's that chunky electric guitar hanging off the shoulders of Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, the classic axe thrust skyward by Guns N' Roses' lead guitarist Slash. You know ...

The world’s first electric guitar had been invented. Or at least, nearly invented. It was almost too heavy to lift and had only one note but nonetheless, the teenager had proved it could be done.

The man whose name adorns Gibson’s signature electric invented something called “the Log” in 1940 — a 4-inch by 4-inch block of pine wood to which Paul attached a guitar neck, a bridge and ...

But the Gibson Les Paul was far from being the first electric guitar. In 1931, the very first electrically amplified stringed instrument sold commercially was a simple, all-metal, cast aluminum ...