The truly remarkable Edwin Land held more patents than any other American with the one exception of Thomas Edison: 500+. Yet he will be forever remembered for just one: the Polaroid instant-developing camera.
Land was a Harvard "dropout" who went into research as a business with his physics professor in 1932. In 1937, Land founded his own firm, the Polaroid Corporation, using his breakthroughs for sunglasses and for filters, goggles and target devices for military use.
Soon after the end of World War II, Land introduced his most popular invention, the Polaroid camera. Kids today, whose digital photos are, of course, instantly available, cannot picture (no pun intended) the fun people my age had being able to instantly develop the shots we took and share them with friends.
The Polaroid Land Camera began being sold in 1948 and was immensely popular in the 1950s.
Land received many, many awards and recognitions before his death in 1991 at age 82.
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