Insisting on the impossible
The Life of Edwin Land
by Victor K. McElheny · first published 1998
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If a single life exemplifies the inner drive that fires a great inventor, it is the life of Edwin Land. Insisting on the Impossible is the first full scale biography of this Magellan of modern technology. Victor McElheny reveals the startling scope and daring spirit of Land's scientific and entrepreneurial genius. Second only to Edison in the number of patents he received (535), 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, an
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