Word: polaroid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stops in a town square, Rockefeller, wearing western boots and a cowman's hat, lopes about shaking every hand in sight, even darts into stores to greet people who didn't come out on the street to meet him. As he performs, a team of aides carrying Polaroid cameras snaps as many as 500 pictures a day. Ten seconds after a handshake, a pleased voter gets a keepsake picture of himself with Rockefeller...
...slowly; photographic film was needed to blend them into a pic ture. While each picture was being drawn on the tube, a kinescope camera watched, keeping its shutter open just long enough to catch one entire shot. At intervals, the engineers snapped the face of the tube with a Polaroid camera and got an instant print that gave quick assurance that all was going well...
...Edwin H. Land, chairman of the board, president, and director of research, Polaroid Corp.-Sc.D...
Among corporations, General Electric holds the most (12,000), followed by A.T. & T., RCA, Esso, Westinghouse and Du Pont. The individuals who hold the most patents are also connected with corporations: Raytheon Scientist Percy Spencer alone holds 225, and Polaroid's chairman, Dr. Edwin Land, has well over...
...circuit boards for computers, and McDonnell Aircraft saves $28 and 15 man-hours on each engineering layout by using cameras for reproduction. As a protection against forgers, cameras snap pictures of people who cash checks in supermarkets and banks. Newark's Beauty Industries Inc. uses an instant-picture Polaroid as a sales tool, photographing a beauty parlor's client and then overlaying different hair styles on the photo so that the customer can see how she will look...