The article says it's the anniversary for the patent on Gibson's pickup, not for the guitar. And Gibson's electric wasn't even the first on the market.
i'd love to see the faces of those who think it's hilarious when they'd come face to face with a taxidermied human corpse being used as a coat hanger with a stick up its ass.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Luke
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
I would blow my brains out.