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| Preface to the Sloan Technology Series | XI |
| Chronology | XIII |
| Overture | 1 |
| Part I An Inventor Is Born | |
| 1 Noontime | 5 |
| 2 Self-Taught Boyhood | 13 |
| 3 "First Happiest Moment": Polarizer | 24 |
| 4 Start-up | 48 |
| 5 Going Public | 69 |
| Part II Detroit and Hollywood | |
| 6 Headlight Glare | 86 |
| 7 Three Dimensions | 108 |
| Part III World War II | |
| 8 "The Best Damn Goggles in the World" | 126 |
| 9 "Who Can Object to Such Monopolies?" | 140 |
| Part IV New Photography, New Science | |
| 10 Sepia in a Minute | 161 |
| 11 "A Whole New Industry" | 189 |
| 12 Black-and-White: Meroe Morse | 203 |
| 13 Instant Color: Howard Rogers | 220 |
| 14 Color Vision | 245 |
| Part V Secret Statesman: Cold War | |
| 15 U-2 Spy Plane | 278 |
| 16 The Shock of Sputnik | 306 |
| 17 Spy Satellites | 322 |
| Part VI Grand Scale: SX-70 | |
| 18 Demonstrating a "New Medium" | 341 |
| 19 Collaborators | 356 |
| 20 Selling SX-70 | 376 |
| Part VII Exit from Polaroid | |
| 21 Crisis | 392 |
| 22 Instant Movies | 409 |
| 23 Too Late | 425 |
| Part VIII Evening | |
| 24 Polaroid v. Kodak | 441 |
| 25 Prospero's Island | 455 |
| Abbreviations | 468 |
| Sources | 469 |
| Notes | 475 |
| Acknowledgments | 503 |
| Index | 505 |
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Sara Woodbury
reviewed Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land on July 13, 2014
Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land
Read this for its descriptions of Land's patent battles with my great-grandfather, Robert Armstrong Smith. Fascinating stuff, but incomplete...my grandmother wrote a little profile of her father that included a mention of Land as a person, not just as a scientist. I love the image of Edwin Land asleep on my great-grandma's shoulder during field tests of polarized headlights at night. We also have family film of him mugging for a camera in his lab in about 1940. He was brilliant, but I would have enjoyed a bit more of his personality.
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Add Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land, If a single life exemplifies the inner drive that fires a great inventor, it is the life of Edwin Land. The major innovations that he was able to achieve in photography, optics, industry, and science policy carry priceless lessons for readers today.Insist, Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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