11. Edwin H. Land, The Man Who Inspired Steve Jobs.
11. The Man Who Inspired Steve Jobs. Polaroid founder and the inventor of instant photography, Edwin H. Land, was a hero in the eyes of Jobs. [NYT]
IN the memorials to Steven P. Jobs this week, Apple’s co-founder was compared with the world’s great inventor-entrepreneurs: Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Alexander Graham Bell. Yet virtually none of the obituaries mentioned the man Jobs himself considered his hero, the person on whose career he explicitly modeled his own: Edwin H. Land, the genius domus of Polaroid Corporation and inventor of instant photography.
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