INSPIRATION OF A CHILD



HEY!  DID YOU KNOW??

A CHILD WAS THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE POLAROID INSTANT CAMERA:

SHE WAS THE INVENTOR’S THREE-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER.  DR. EDWIN H. 
LAND TELLS IT THIS WAY:  “I RECALL A SUNNY DAY IN SANTE FE  WHEN
 MY LITTLE DAUGHTER ASKED WHY SHE COULD NOT SEE AT ONCE 
THE PICTURE I HAD JUST TAKEN OF HER.
AS I WALKED AROUND THE CHARMING TOWN, I UNDERTOOK THE 
TASK OF SOLVING THE PUZZLE SHE HAD SET  (SOUNDS MORE LIKE
 A CHALLENGE) FOR ME.  WITHIN AN HOUR, THE CAMERA, THE FILM, 
AND THE PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY BECAME SO CLEAR TO ME.”  AND SO 
DR. ED LAND, FOUNDED THE POLAROID CORPORATION IN 1937 
AND HEADED IT TILL 1982.

AND THAT’S HOW THE POLAROID CAMERA BEGAN.

OR HOW ABOUT THEODORE SEUSS GEISEL, WHO WHILE STUDYING TO BE
 A TEACHER AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY WOULD DOODLE IN HIS NOTEBOOKS, 
AND HIS DRAWINGS CAUGHT THE ATTENTION OF HELEN MARION PALMER, 
A FELLOW STUDENT.  PALMER, WHO LATER MARRIED GEISEL, SAID “TED’S 
NOTEBOOKS WERE ALWAYS FILLED WITH THESE FABULOUS ANIMALS.  
SO I SET TO WORK DIVERTING HIM; HERE WAS A MAN WHO COULD DRAW PICTURES;
 HE SHOULD BE EARNING A LIVING DOING THAT.” GEISEL, USING THE 
PSEUDONYM DR. SUESS, DID JUST THAT.  BUT REMEMBER HE WAS 
REJECTED 27 TIMES BY PUBLISHERS, BEFORE HIS FIRST CHILDREN’S 
BOOK WAS PUBLISHED.