Endnotes

• Author: Ronald K. Fierstein
• Profession: Lawyer on the team of litigators from the prestigious patent law firm of Fish & Neave
• Pages: 541-612

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ENDNOTES

Note concerning endnotes:

The endnotes used in this text are meant to direct the interested reader to the source

of the fact(s) or quotation(s) appearing in that section. In order to keep the number of

endnotes as small as possible, when a single source is used repeatedly in succession in a

given paragraph, not every fact or quotation is notated. In such cases, where an endnote is

omitted, the source can readily be located by using neighboring citations.

Abbreviations used in endnotes (after first appearance):

HBS = Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School.

PvK = Polaroid Corporation vs. Eastman Kodak Company, United States District

Court, District of Massachusetts, Civil Action No. 76-1634-Z (liability trial).

PvKdam = Polaroid Corporation v. Eastman Kodak Company, United States Dis-

trict Court, District of Massachusetts, Civil Action 76-1634-MA (dam-

ages trial).

F&N = Fish & Neave, Litigation Files, author’s collection.

PvB = Polaroid Corporation v. Berkey Photo, Inc., United States District Court,

District of Delaware, Civil Action No. 75-179.

Cover photo: Courtesy of Polaroid Corporation Archives

Preface

1. Steve Huntley, “Polaroid Landmark Comes into View,” Chicago Sun-Times,

September 17, 1987.

2. Edwin H. Land, “On Some Conditions for Scientific Profundity in Industrial

Research,” Charles F. Kettering Award Address, June 17, 1965, in Edwin H. Land’s

Essays, Vol. II, 58, ed. Mary McCann (Society for Imaging Science and Technology

1993); F.W. Campbell, “Edwin Herbert Land,” Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the

Royal Society, Vol. 40 (Nov. 1994), 202.

3. Elkan Blout, “Polaroid: Dreams to Reality,” Daedalus, Vol. 125, No. 2 (American

Academy of Arts and Sciences, March 22, 1996).

Chapter 1

1. Victor K. McElheny, Insisting on the Impossible, the Life of Edwin Land

(Perseus Books, 1998), 13–14.

2. Kurt Grunwald, “Turkenhirsch: Study of Baron Maurice de Hirsch” (Israel

Program for Scientific Translations, 1966).

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3. McElheny, Insisting on the Impossible, 6.

4. Barry Meisel, interview by author, September 2008, Chappaqua, NY.

5. McElheny, Insisting on the Impossible, 14.

6. Ibid., 13.

7. Alex Beam, “Edwin Land’s Place in History,” Boston Globe, August 11, 1987.

8. McElheny, Insisting on the Impossible, 13.

9. Victor K. McElheny, “Edwin Herbert Land,” Biographical Memoirs (National

Academy of Sciences, 1999), 5.

10. Robert Lenzner, “Land: The Man behind the Camera,” Boston Globe, October 17,

1976, B7.

11. Robert Lenzner, “The Promised Land,” Boston Globe, August 3, 1982, 43.

12. McElheny, “Edwin Herbert Land,” 6.

13. Edwin H. Land, “Some Aspects of the Development of Sheet Polarizers,”

Journal of the Optical Society of America, December 1951, 957.

14. Stephen A. Benton, “Edwin Land, 3-D, and Holography,” Optics & Photonics

News, October 1994, 41.

15. Edwin H. Land, “Our ‘Polar Partnership’ with the World around Us,” Harvard

Magazine 80 (1978).

16. Ibid.

17. F.W. Campbell, “Edwin Herbert Land,” Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the

Royal Society 40 (Nov. 1994), 198.

18. Edwin H. Land, “Pointillism and Laser Scintillation” (lecture, Johns Hopkins

University, November 21, 1975), in Edwin H. Land’s Essays, vol. 3, ed. Mary McCann

(Society for Imaging Science and Technology, 1993), 119; McElheny, Insisting on the

Impossible, 20.

19. McElheny, Insisting on the Impossible, 20.

20. McElheny, “Edwin Herbert Land,” 6.

21. Robert Wood, Physical Optics (1914), 288, quoted in McElheny, Insisting on the

Impossible, 20.

22. McElheny, “Edwin Herbert Land,” 6.

23. “Polaroid’s Big Gamble on Small Cameras,” Time, June 26, 1972.

24. Campbell, “Edwin Herbert Land,” 198.

25. Howard Rogers, “Biography, Edwin H. Land 1909–1991,” in Edwin H. Land’s

Essays, vol. 1, 5.

26. Edwin H. Land, “On Some Conditions for Scientific Profundity in Industrial

Research” (Charles F. Kettering Award address, Washington, DC, June 17, 1965), in

Edwin H. Land’s Essays, vol. 2, 57–58.

27. Edwin H. Land, “Polaroid,” Society of Automotive Engineers Journal (1937), 20.

28. Land, “Some Aspects of the Development of Sheet Polarizers.”

29. Lenzner, “Land: The Man behind the Camera,” B7.

30. Campbell, “Edwin Herbert Land,” 198.

31. McElheny, Insisting on the Impossible, 27.

32. McElheny, “Edwin Herbert Land,” 4.

33. Ibid.

34. Edwin H. Land, “Addiction as a Necessity and Opportunity,” Science, January

15, 1971, reprinted in Edwin H. Land’s Essays, vol. 2, 71; McElheny, Insisting on the

Impossible, 27.

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35. Lenzner, “Land: The Man behind the Camera,” B1.

36. McElheny, Insisting on the Impossible, 31.

37. Liz Roman Gallese, “I Am a Camera,” Boston Business, Fall 1966, 51; McElheny,

Insisting on the Impossible, 28.

38. Campbell, “Edwin Herbert Land,” 199.

39. Mitchell Lynch, “Polaroid Tries to Get Itself in Focus,” New York Times, May 15,

1983, p. 54; McElheny, Insisting on the Impossible, 75.

40. Campbell, “Edwin Herbert Land,” 200.

41. Donald L. Brown, “Protection through Patents: The Polaroid Story,” Journal of

the Patent Office Society (1960), vol. 42, 439, 441.

42. Edwin H. Land, “Polaroid and the Headlight Problem,” Journal of the Franklin

Institute, September 1937, reprinted in Edwin H. Land’s Essays, vol. 1, 5.

43. Ibid.

44. McElheny, Insisting on the Impossible, 34.

45. Ibid., 36.

46. Ibid., 37.

47. Land, “Some Aspects of the Development of Sheet Polarizers,” 99.

48. McElheny, Insisting on the Impossible, 38.

49. Karel Svoboda, “Light and Life, Optical Matter, a Symposium in Honor of Edwin

Land,” Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, April 1992, vol. 45, 23.

50. Harland Manchester, “Pictures in 60 Seconds,” Scientific American, April 1947, 168.

51. McElheny, Insisting on the Impossible, 38.

52. Land, “Polaroid and the Headlight Problem,” 5.

53. McElheny, Insisting on the Impossible, 39.

54. Brown, “Protection through Patents: The Polaroid Story,” 442–43.

55. McElheny, Insisting on the Impossible, 41.

56. Ibid., 40.

57. Ibid., 41.

58. “In the Light of Polaroid,” Fortune, September 1938, 76, Polaroid Corporation

Administrative Records, Box I225, f. 4, Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard

Business School.

59. Claudia Deutsch, “G.W. Wheelwright III, 97, Dies; Co-founder of Polaroid,”

New York Times, March 3, 2001.

60. McElheny, “Edwin Herbert Land,” 7.

61. McElheny, Insisting on the Impossible, 45.

62. J.D. Ratcliff, “The $50,000,000 Quinine Sandwich,” True, August 1948, 82.

63. McElheny, Insisting on the Impossible, 45.

64. Land, “Some Aspects of the Development of Sheet Polarizers.”

65. Campbell, “Edwin Herbert Land,” 199.

66. McElheny, Insisting on the Impossible, 44.

67. McElheny, “Edwin Herbert Land,” 7.

68. McElheny, Insisting on the Impossible, 47.

69. Ibid., 87.

70. Ibid., 88.

71. Ibid., 90.

72. Ibid., 91.

73. Ibid., 49.

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