America 250: Leo Fender

Clarence Leonidas ‘Leo’ Fender, laminitis of the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, transformed fashionable euphony and helped signifier the dependable of stone and roll. 

Clarence Leonidas 'Leo' Fender (1909–1991) was an American inventor and laminitis of the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. Born successful Orange County, California, helium grew up connected his family’s ranch and aboriginal studied accounting astatine Fullerton Junior College. Despite having nary ceremonial grooming successful engineering, Fender developed groundbreaking amplifiers and electrical instruments. In the aboriginal 1950s, helium introduced the archetypal mass-produced solid-body electrical guitars, including the Telecaster and Stratocaster. His designs transformed fashionable euphony and helped signifier the dependable of stone and roll. Fender was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame successful 1992, and his innovations stay wide utilized by musicians astir the world.