Artifact
Land’s light polarizer
Synthetic sheet that polarizes light, invented by Edwin Land.
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developed by
- Edwin H. Land Scholarship & press 1
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Polaroid Corporation
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Organised to exploit Land’s polarizer.
led to
- Polarized lenses Scholarship & press 1
Proof 1 source
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Edwin Herbert Land (Biographical Memoirs), National Academy of Sciences.
Scholarship & press
The light polarizers Land invented made it economically possible to make use of the phenomenon of light polarization in products as diverse as camera filters, scientific instruments, train and airplane windows, three-dimensional movies, and polarizing sunglasses.
The limited exclusive rights given for Land's inventions permitted him to organize Polaroid Corporation to exploit his light polarizer
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