Instant camera lore dates back to WWII. Here's how we got to the Polaroid Land Camera

There is still some fondness out there for the old-style cameras, and one that often evokes sighs of remembrance is the ...
Harvard Business School

Exhibit at Harvard Business School's Baker Library Focuses On Polaroid Camera and Other Inventions of Edwin Land

BOSTON—In 1943, Edwin Land, who had first made his mark in 1933 with a patent for the development of an affordable light-polarizing material to eliminate glare from automobile headlights and the sun ...
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‘Mr. Polaroid’ Trailer: American Experience Documentary Shows How Edwin Land Developed Instant Photography Tech Decades Before Smart Phones

EXCLUSIVE: The idea of taking a photograph anywhere, anytime and see the image immediately has become entirely routine. But in the 1940s, the concept was revolutionary. Long before smart phones made ...
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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Mr. Polaroid

Long before the iPhone, another inventive device allowed everyone to instantly chronicle their lives — the Polaroid camera. The product, and the company’s unique culture, would launch not only instant ...
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Edwin Land and Polaroid Photography

Dedicated at the MIT Museum on August 13, 2015, and installed at the former Polaroid Corporation Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Edwin H. Land (1909–1991) was the innovative inventor ...