Edwin Land introduced the first successful instant camera, marketed as the Land Camera in 1948.
Land was an American scientist and inventor who co-founded the Polaroid Corporation. The first Land Camera, the Model 95, went on sale in Boston in 1948. It produced a finished photograph in roughly one minute by combining exposure, development, and printing inside a special film pack.
The invention grew from Land’s work on instant photography and light-polarizing materials. His daughter’s impatience to see a photograph helped inspire the project, according to the commonly told account, although the underlying chemistry and engineering were developed through extensive research.
“Polaroid” refers to the company and its products, not the inventor’s personal name. George Eastman made photography widely accessible with Kodak film, but Land created the commercially successful instant-photography system.