Electric guitar design name. In 1954, Fender introduced the Fender Stratocaster, or "Strat". It was positioned as a deluxe model and offered various product improvements and innovations over the Telecaster. These innovations included an ash or alder double-cutaway body design for badge assembly with an integrated vibrato mechanism (called a "synchronized tremolo" by Fender, thus beginning a confusion of the terms that still continues), three single-coil pickups, and body comfort contours. Leo Fender is also credited with developing the first commercially successful electric bass called the Fender Precision Bass, introduced in 1951. Gibson, like many guitar manufacturers, had long offered semi-acoustic guitars with
American automobile industry in the 1950s hardtop was introduced in 1953 and is considered by many to be one of the most beautiful American-made automobiles of the 1950s. It was designed by a team led by famed industrial designer Raymond Loewy and is sometimes called the "Loewy Coupe". The Chevrolet Corvette was first introduced in 1953, and as of the 2018 model year is still in production. It has gone through seven major generations, with minor changes yearly, and still features a fiberglass body, a tradition since the original model rolled off the assembly line. Originally, Chevrolet had expected to use fiberglass only for the concept