(Reuters) - U.S. industrial conglomerate Emerson Electric Co on Wednesday agreed to buy National Instruments Corp for $8.2 billion, capping a nearly yearlong pursuit of the measurement equipment maker ...

Happy 100th Birthday, Les Paul! June 9, 2015, is an important day for the guitar and music world: It is the centennial of the birth of electric guitar icon and innovator, Les Paul, who was born in ...

Emerson Electric Co. has managed to reach a deal to acquire National Instruments. The question is if Emerson is the winner in this deal. With many moving parts in its transition, Emerson remains a bit ...

[Noah] tipped us off to his work with Physically Engaged Electronic Instruments. He is building instruments, that while being electronic, require physical action to drive them. In the video after the ...

What’s considered the best-selling pop instrument of all time was invented by Southern Californian Leo Fender. Aug. 10, 1909: Clarence Leonidas Fender is born in Anaheim. 1928: Fender graduates from ...

You know the Gibson Les Paul: It's that chunky electric guitar hanging off the shoulders of Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, the classic axe thrust skyward by Guns N' Roses' lead guitarist Slash. You know ...

Leo Fender and Les Paul were pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar. Their innovations helped change the course of music — and put the guitar at the center of the rock 'n' roll revolution. Fender ...