Meet Edwin Land, the visionary scientist and inventor of thePolaroid camera. When it was introduced in 1948, the Polaroidrevolutionized amateur photography with a camera that providedpictures instantly – by the 1970s, people across the globewere shooting over a billion Polaroids a year. The camera notonly revolutionized how we take pictures and capture memories,but it also helped earn Land a reputation as one of the mostvisionary and prolific inventors and entrepreneurs of the 20thcentury. His invention of a new product and a new and creativecorporate culture would inspire the leaders of the 1990s techboom, including Steve Jobs, who saw Land as both a guru andgodfather.
