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Polaroid, owning patents to its polarizer technology, got its start by employing polarization in products that included 3-D movies and protective goggles for military dogs. [15] During World War II, Polaroid designed and manufactured numerous products for the armed services including an infrared night viewing device.
Edwin Herbert Land, ForMemRS, [2] FRPS, Hon.MRI (May 7, 1909 – March 1, 1991) was an American scientist and inventor, [4] best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation.
A $7 million navy contract to work on the Dove heat-seeking missile project is the largest contract Polaroid has ever had, though the bomb is not used during World War II. [7] Polaroid produced a number of other products for the Armed Forces, including a device that determined an aircraft's elevation above the horizon, an infrared night viewing ...
The Polaroid SX-70. 1972-mid-2000s The world was introduced to instant photography in 1972, when a Polaroid executive snapped five snapshots in just 10 seconds with the game-changing SX-70. Over ...
Minox (pronounced / ˈ m iː n ɒ k s / MEE-noks) is a manufacturer of cameras, known especially for its subminiature camera.. The first product to carry the Minox name was a subminiature camera, conceived in 1922, and finally produced in 1936, by Baltic German Walter Zapp. [1]
Adox was a German camera and film brand of Fotowerke Dr. C. Schleussner GmbH of Frankfurt am Main, the world's first photographic materials manufacturer. In the 1950s it launched its revolutionary thin layer sharp black and white kb 14 and 17 films, referred to by US distributors as the 'German wonder film'. [1]
The first roll film camera was the Polaroid Model 95, followed by subsequent models containing various new features. Roll film came in two rolls (positive/developing agent and negative) which were loaded into the camera and was eventually offered in three sizes (40, 30, and 20 series).
In 1991, police discovered Jeffrey Dahmer had 84 polaroid photos depicting 17 murders he committed between 1978 to 1991. The act is shown in 'Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story' on Netflix.