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The Fender company calls the Esquire the first solid-body electric guitar. Unfortunately, according to the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery, Fender only made about 50 of these original guitars.

Les Paul, 94, a Grammy Award-winning guitar virtuoso and inventor of the solid-body electric guitar who helped bring his instrument to the forefront of jazz and rock-and-roll performance, died Aug ...

The man who invented history’s most iconic electric guitar couldn’t play, or even tune it. But when Clarence Leonidas “Leo” ...

First are solid-body electric guitars. These electric guitar types feature some of the most well-known names in the electric guitar world, such as the Fender Telecaster and Stratocaster.

It was Leo Fender’s 1951 Broadcaster that was the first solid-body guitar to captivate guitarists. Fender’s rival, the Gibson guitar company, ...

He produced the first solid-body guitars, including the Telecaster Broadcaster models, in 1951 and the Stratocaster, with its simple built-in electronics, first hit stores in September of 1954.

Inspired by the solid-body electric guitars of his friend and fellow guitar inventor Les Paul, the solid-body guitar Fender invented helped him put his company on sure financial footing – in 1950, the ...

There's Gretsch's first prototype of Chet Atkins' signature guitar, built in 1955, a 1958 Korina Gibson flying V played by Neil Young, the second-ever solid-body guitar made by Paul Bigsby in 1948 ...

NEW YORK -- Les Paul, the guitar virtuoso and inventor who revolutionized music and created rock 'n' roll as surely as Elvis Presley and the Beatles by developing the solid-body ...

In the 1930s he began experimenting with guitar amplification, and by 1941 he had built what was probably the first solid-body electric guitar, although there are other claimants.