110th years of Edwin H. Land, an American #scientist and #inventor, best known as the co-founder of the #Polaroid Corporation. He invented inexpensive filters for #polarizing light, a practical system of in-camera #instant #photography, and the #retinextheory of #colorvision, among other things. His Polaroid #instantcamera went on sale in late #1948 and made it possible for a picture to be taken and developed in 60 seconds or less.
Land invented the first inexpensive filters capable of polarizing light which he called #Polaroidfilm. He further developed and produced the sheet polarizers under the Polaroid trademark. Although the initial major application was for #sunglasses and scientific work, it quickly found many additional applications: for #coloranimation in the Wurlitzer 850 Peacock jukebox of 1942, for glasses in full-color #stereoscopic movies, to control brightness of light through a window, a necessary component of all LCDs, and many more. During #WorldWarII, he worked on #military tasks, which included developing dark-adaptation goggles, target finders, the first passively guided smart bombs, and a special stereoscopic viewing system called the #Vectograph which revealed camouflaged enemy positions in aerial photography.
(7 May 1909 – 1 March 1991)
Land invented the first inexpensive filters capable of polarizing light which he called #Polaroidfilm. He further developed and produced the sheet polarizers under the Polaroid trademark. Although the initial major application was for #sunglasses and scientific work, it quickly found many additional applications: for #coloranimation in the Wurlitzer 850 Peacock jukebox of 1942, for glasses in full-color #stereoscopic movies, to control brightness of light through a window, a necessary component of all LCDs, and many more. During #WorldWarII, he worked on #military tasks, which included developing dark-adaptation goggles, target finders, the first passively guided smart bombs, and a special stereoscopic viewing system called the #Vectograph which revealed camouflaged enemy positions in aerial photography.
(7 May 1909 – 1 March 1991)
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