

Edwin Herbert Land (1910)close

Edwin Herbert Land, inventor and physicist, was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Land and a group of scientists founded the Polaroid Company in 1937. During WWII, the company produced military related items like target finders and dark-adaptation glasses. Their most successful product was the Polaroid Land Camera, the first "instant" camera. It was introduced in the late 1940s.


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