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- catalog abstract ""Land built a modest enterprise into a gigantic "invention factory," turning out not only polarizers and the first instant cameras, but also high-speed and X-ray film, identification systems,3-D and instant movies, and military devices for night vision and aerial reconnaissance. As a scientist, Land developed a new theory of color vision; as a science advisor to Eisenhower during the Cold War he spearheaded the development of the U-2 spy plane and helped design NASA". -- Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10982653.
- catalog contributor b10982654.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description ""Land built a modest enterprise into a gigantic "invention factory," turning out not only polarizers and the first instant cameras, but also high-speed and X-ray film, identification systems,3-D and instant movies, and military devices for night vision and aerial reconnaissance. As a scientist, Land developed a new theory of color vision; as a science advisor to Eisenhower during the Cold War he spearheaded the development of the U-2 spy plane and helped design NASA". -- Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [468]-474) and index.".
- catalog description "Overture -- An Inventor Is Born -- Noontime -- Self-Taught Boyhood -- "First Happiest Moment": Polarizer -- Start-up -- Going Public -- Detroit and Hollywood -- Headlight Glare -- Three Dimensions -- World War II -- "The Best Damn Goggles in the World" -- "Who Can Object to Such Monopolies?" -- New Photography, New Science -- Sepia in a Minute -- "A Whole New Industry" -- Black-and-White: Meroe Morse -- Instant Color: Howard Rogers -- Color Vision -- Secret Statesman: Cold War -- U-2 Spy Plane -- The Shock of Sputnik -- Spy Satellites -- Grand Scale: SX-70 -- Demonstrating a "New Medium" -- Collaborators -- Selling SX-70 -- Exit from Polaroid -- Crisis -- Instant Movies -- Too Late -- Evening -- Polaroid v. Kodak -- Prospero's Island.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 510 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Insisting on the impossible.".
- catalog identifier "0738200093".
- catalog isFormatOf "Insisting on the impossible.".
- catalog isPartOf "Sloan technology series".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Reading, Mass. : Perseus Books,".
- catalog relation "Insisting on the impossible.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "Inventors United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Land, Edwin Herbert, 1909-".
- catalog subject "Land, Edwin Herbert, 1909-1991.".
- catalog subject "Polaroid Corporation History.".
- catalog subject "Scientists United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "TR540.L36 M36 1998x".
- catalog tableOfContents "Overture -- An Inventor Is Born -- Noontime -- Self-Taught Boyhood -- "First Happiest Moment": Polarizer -- Start-up -- Going Public -- Detroit and Hollywood -- Headlight Glare -- Three Dimensions -- World War II -- "The Best Damn Goggles in the World" -- "Who Can Object to Such Monopolies?" -- New Photography, New Science -- Sepia in a Minute -- "A Whole New Industry" -- Black-and-White: Meroe Morse -- Instant Color: Howard Rogers -- Color Vision -- Secret Statesman: Cold War -- U-2 Spy Plane -- The Shock of Sputnik -- Spy Satellites -- Grand Scale: SX-70 -- Demonstrating a "New Medium" -- Collaborators -- Selling SX-70 -- Exit from Polaroid -- Crisis -- Instant Movies -- Too Late -- Evening -- Polaroid v. Kodak -- Prospero's Island.".
- catalog title "Insisting on the impossible : the life of Edwin Land / Victor K. McElheny.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".