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...paper--or send it off to a professional lab--before they actually had a picture in hand. Land was convinced he could shortcut this laborious process by creating a camera that did all the work itself, and by 1947 he had done it. Instead of conventional film, the Polaroid Land Camera was loaded with photographic paper coated with a paste of light-sensitive chemicals. A mere 60 sec. after the photographer tripped the shutter, out popped a snapshot. The first Polaroids were black-and-white; the company introduced color in 1963. Land's invention added a new dimension to photography...
INSTANT GRATIFICATION Polaroid has finally caught up to the disposable camera crowd with its new Pop Shots. For $20 you get 10 instant color photos and a choice of indoor or outdoor settings (flash or no flash). Just snap the picture and pull the "rip cord" to eject. When you run out of film, you can slip the camera into the envelope provided (postage paid) and mail it back to Polaroid for recycling...
...impressed that they gave the 20-year-old a lab of his own for the project. Wall Street paid attention, too; soon everything from cameras to car headlights, sunglasses to red-and-blue 3D movie glasses used Land's polarizers. The young inventor went on to found Polaroid, which quickly expanded into the instant film business, and then into the instant film camera business, and so on. Along the way, Land made a whole lot of money and gave a whole lot of it back to science departments at various institutions. He paid Harvard back for his first lab handsomely...
...impressed that they gave the 20-year-old a lab of his own for the project. Wall Street paid attention, too; soon everything from cameras to car headlights, sunglasses to red-and-blue 3D movie glasses used Land's polarizers. The young inventor went on to found Polaroid, which quickly expanded into the instant film business, and then into the instant film camera business, and so on. Along the way, Land made a whole lot of money and gave a whole lot of it back to science departments at various institutions. He paid Harvard back for his first lab handsomely...
...city's planning board will first implement IPOP at their meeting tonight. Two major Cambridge developers, Polaroid and Lyme, will be testifying at the hearing about their proposed construction projects...