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 introduced air suspension as an option for select models but it was unreliable and was soon dropped. For Buick, the unpopular ""Air Poise Suspension"" contributed to the division's decline to fifth place in industry sales for 1958. Decades later though it became a common and reliable method of suspension on luxury cars, buses, large transport trucks, and in some custom car applications. Unibody construction first went into mass-production in the 1934 Citroën Traction Avant, the 1936 Lincoln-Zephyr, and the 1941 Nash 600 but it didn't come into popular use until the 1950s. Unibody construction differs from the traditional "coachwork on