Inventor's name: Edwin Herbert Land

Date of birth: May 7, 1909

Date of death: March 1, 1991

Invention: The instant -photo film and cameras.

Other interesting facts concerning Edwin Land are as follows:

1) He was born in Connecticut and was educated at Norwich Free Academy

2) Land was not only an inventor, but a physicist and manufacturing executive,

3) He founded the Polaroid Corporation,

4) During his life he was awarded with six honorary doctorates,

6) and during World War 11 he develops optical and other systems for military use and he also proposed the retinex theory for mechanism of color perception.

Source: * "Edwin Herbert Land." available http://www.inventor.org/book/book-text/65.html/ December 19, 2001.