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Electric Guitar     Instruments that illustrate how innovative makers and players combined the guitar with a pickup (sensor) and amplifier to create a new instrument and a new sound that profoundly changed popular music - blues, country, rhythm and blues, jazz, and rock and roll - in the 20th century. From Lemelson Center Invention Features: Electric Guitars http://www.si.edu/lemelson/guitars/index.htm

Electric Ballerina     Watch an animation of difficult ballet elements such as fouettes, and jumps. The electric ballerina demonstrates ballet technique and makes use of a basic principle in physics. From The Electric Ballerina http://www.novia.net/~jlw/electric/electric.html