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What it says on the tin.
The first "electrified" guitars were archtops with microphones. The prototype solidbody was 1931. Could it have been done sooner? In the 1910s? 1890s? 1870s, even?
A secondary question: could the humbucker pickups have been piezoelectric from the start?