Edwin H. Land Polaroid Corporation, The Rowland Institute for Science
The invention, development, and marketing of instant photography
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He imagined—and created—a one-step camera
Story 2 He preferred textbooks to storybooks at bedtime
Story 3 He was a determined 5-year-old scientist
Story 4 Harvard dropout followed his dream
Story 5 How does instant photography work?
Edwin Land removes a photograph from his new Polaroid "picture-in-a-minute" camera, 1948.
Land demonstrating his plastic sheet polarizer that was later used in sunglasses and many other products, 1930s.
