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At a 1947 meeting of the Optical Society of America, he took 2 instant photos of himself

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  • After his 3-year-old was impatient to see the photo he'd taken, he set out to invent an "instant" camera
  • When he retired from Polaroid in 1982, he held 533 patents
  • 30 years after inventing an instant camera, he invented Polavision, instant movies
  • Aug. 29, 1946:Files a patent for an instant camera
  • In 1932 this inventor figured out a better way than using Iceland spar to polarize light

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