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Edwin Land

Born: 1909
Birthplace: Connecticut

Photographic product comprising a rupturable containing carrying a photographic processing liquid—Land developed the first modern light polarizers and also optical devices. His most famous invention, the Polaroid camera, combined positive and negative film with developing chemicals. (1977)

Died: 1991

Irwin Lachman

The National Inventors Hall of Fame

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