Posts Tagged ‘ scientist ’

With Paul Celan into the 21st Century: Pierre Joris || Woodberry Poetry Room – YouTube

On a day like today, in New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first “instant camera”

L_2014-02-21-flashback-f4cc9186-f400

 

February 21, 1947. The instant camera is a type of camera that generates a developed film image. The most popular types to use self-developing film were formerly made by Polaroid Corporation. The invention of modern instant cameras is generally credited to American scientist Edwin Land, who unveiled the first commercial instant camera, the Land Camera, in 1948, a year after unveiling instant film in New York City. In this image: The Polaroid Land Camera model 103.

Polaroid Flashback | Art Daily

Boston Review — Dorothea Lasky: Scientist or Mystic

Boston Review — Dorothea Lasky: Scientist or Mystic.

Barry Commoner, The First Guy I Ever Voted For, Dead at 95 | capitoilette

Barry Commoner, The First Guy I Ever Voted For, Dead at 95 | capitoilette.

Dr Commoner wrote the very best in-depth series on energy for the New Yorker in 1976 followed by many other articles, there and elsewhere, that helped to shape the environmental movement in the United States. He was a truly great thinker and teacher.  ~ Donna Fleischer