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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.Insisting on the Impossible is the first full-scale biography of this Magellan of modern technology. Victor McElheny reveals t...more
Paperback, 544 pages
Published
September 24th 1999
by Basic Books
(first published October 6th 1998)
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Having read this book, it is no surprise that Steve Jobs considered Land such a powerful inspiration. Land was Jobs before Jobs - driven, innovative, creative, fearless, monomaniacal and able to see futures that others couldn't even dream of. It is staggering the lengths to which his invention reached. He's one of less than a half-dozen Americans who holds more than 500 patents.
The work required to make instant color photography possible (and which now seems so blase) is a scientific thriller ac...more
The work required to make instant color photography possible (and which now seems so blase) is a scientific thriller ac...more
Parts about colour theory really useful and interesting.
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