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Inventor

George D Beauchamp

Patents indexed

1

Year range

1937

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Years active

1937

Total patents

1

Most recent

1937

Domains

consumer_electronicsmechanical

Activity by decade

1930s
1

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1

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1 patents, in 1937

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US 2089171·1937·ELECTRO STRING INSTR CORP

How the Frying Pan Guitar Created the Electric Guitar

George Beauchamp's 1937 patent for the first commercially successful electric guitar, which used a magnetic pickup to turn string vibrations into electrical signals.

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