We stand on the shoulders of giants and it’s important for us to appreciate that every now and then. The achievement is difficult to imagine now but it must have been unfathomable to those that saw it for the first time in the 70s.
EDWIN LAND SEXIST PATCH
longer a family has been one patch of land the better it is, and is of the opinion that some families. He is known for inventing a one-step process for developing and printing photographs that revolutionized photography. The author, Edwin Abbott, was brought up during. Now imagine being able to do that inside a camera. Edwin Land (May 7, 1909March 1, 1991) was an American inventor, physicist, and avid photograph collector who co-founded the Polaroid Corporation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1937. Color is an order of magnitude more difficult. If you’ve ever taken a photography class and developed a black and white photo you know how complicated the development process is. In an interview with Life magazine in 1972, the American scientist Edwin Land explained that he had invented one-step instant photography during a family vacation in 1944, when his daughter. These days, so many advances are digital that we take them for granted but it must have been inspiring to be at the introduction of the SX-70, the first truly one step instant camera. Polaroid is gone but it’s a shame that so few of us have an appreciation for it in its prime. He leveraged technology to create incredible consumer products and made Polaroid the Apple of its day. Neither had a college degree, but both men built highly successful, innovative organizations. Jobs revered Land as 'a national treasure,' and modeled much of his career after his.
We put Steve Jobs on a pedestal but Edwin Land was the precursor. One man Steve Jobs outspokenly admired was Edwin Land, the creator of Polaroid’s instant photography. Polaroid was a remarkable company and it’s both amazing that it’s no longer around and remarkable that the modern tech world doesn’t seem to appreciate Polaroid and Edwin Land. sources: institutionalized sexism, little knowledge of the paths to upward. I recently finished A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War which starts with a wonderful biography of Edwin Land and ends with a ton of detail about the Polaroid/Kodak lawsuit.
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