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 ...

WASHINGTON – Optica (formerly OSA), Advancing Optics and Photonics Worldwide, and the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) are pleased to announce that Susana Marcos, the David R.

This month, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE introduces viewers to Edwin Land, the visionary scientist and inventor of the Polaroid camera. Because of his invention, people could snap a picture and see it nearly ...

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 ...

A show at Harvard Business School looks at the company as an engine for change in society and art as well as technology Twenty years ago, the Polaroid Corp. donated its archives to Harvard Business ...

The story of Edwin Land, whose iconic Polaroid camera let everyone instantly chronicle their lives. Long before the iPhone, another inventive device allowed everyone to instantly chronicle their lives ...

A Polaroid test sheet from 1946. Image courtesy MIT Museum. With the advent of instant photography, Polaroid revolutionized the industry in a flash. Never before the Model 95 camera debuted in 1948, ...

Digital cameras and smartphones are great. But photo prints that develop before your eyes? That was downright magical in 1972—and still meaningful today. Tackle Any Problem With These 3 Questions ...

IBM is the current record-holder for the most U.S. patents with 8,540 (!), but the individual Americans with the most patents through the end of the 20 th century were Thomas Edison, with 1084, and ...

Edwin Land, were he alive, would hate this post. He wanted to be known for this scientific work and not for his personal life. In fact, upon his death, he ordered the destruction of all his personal ...