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.
Electric guitars"were affordable, they were loud and they were relatively easy to learn," Nicholas Toth, a professor of anthropology and cognitive science at Indiana University — and a stringed instrument collector — told Fox News Digital in an interview.Indiana University professor and instrument collector Nicholas Toth displays his circa-1934 Rickenbacker Frying Pan, the earliest electric guitar.
The earliest model electric guitar was dubbed the Rickenbacker Frying Pan, so called because it resembled a round cast-iron pan with a long handle. In this case, however, it had a neck of steel guitar strings. "The guitar remains the primary sonic sexual and sensual stimuli for excitable people everywhere," rock startold Fox News Digital, while describing the intense power that comes from wielding an electric guitar in front of a live audience.
Amid limited prospects as lower-class citizens of Europe, the family, including Adolf’s oldest sister Emma and newborn brother Robert, left for the United States through the French port of Le Havre in 1891. Detail of the headstock of a vintage 1967 Rickenbacker 366-12 Convertible electric guitar with a Fireglo finish, taken on Sept. 29, 2017.
The two men filed the patent for the"electrical stringed musical instrument" in 1934 and received it in 1937. "Innovative artists in the 1940s and 1950s like Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Les Paul, Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry revolutionized [the electric guitar] and ultimately made it become the primary instrument of rock ‘n’ roll throughout the 1960s and beyond," Andy Leach, senior director of museum and archival collections at theThe electric guitar proved the perfect instrument for an egalitarian society of diverse cultures and influences.
He died with a fabulous gift. He had lived to see his invention, the electric guitar, become a powerful force in pop culture.
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