Re: PhotoForum pop quiz

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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 7:55 AM
Subject: Re: PhotoForum pop quiz
 
You are right, Achal.   Edwin Land was an amazing person, yet we hear so little about him.   I've been reading his biography and I've become a big fan of his.
 
Marilyn

Who are Mr. Polaroid and Sputnik (creator of NASA)?
 
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Marilyn
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 6:44 AM
Subject: PhotoForum pop quiz

During his lifetime, accomplishments by photography inventor ______________  included:
 
 
*535 patents in his name.
*Received the Cresson Medal from Franklin Institute.
*Named "Youngest Modern Pioneer" by the National Association of Manufacturers in 1940.
*Received the Rumford Medal, American Acadmy of Arts and Sciences.
*Participated in Beacon Hill study of aerial reconnaissance.
*Helped start ultrasecret spy satellite program to follow the U-2 and helps design what becomes NASA.
*Received the National Medal of Science.
*Inducted into Royal Society.
 
 
Marilyn

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