After the war ended, Polaroid was faced with a reconversion task of considerable magnitude which brought new organizational and technical skills gained from its wartime experience. During this time, the number of employees increased from 200 to a wartime peak of 1,250. Research projects were conducted under direct contracts with Navy Bureaus, the Office of Scientific Research and Development, and other agencies of the government. Wheelwright left the company in the early 1940s, but stayed on as a member of the Board of Directors until 1948.įollowing the outbreak of World War II, the company’s activities were largely directed to invention, development and manufacture of war products, materials and devices. Demand for the product grew quickly and in 1937, Land-Wheelwright Laboratories was reincorporated as the Polaroid Corporation. At the end of 1935, the first advertisement of the material appeared in a scientific journal, followed by a public announcement in New York. Over the next several years Land and Wheelwright set up operations to manufacture an inexpensive plastic sheet polarizer. Land-Wheelwright Laboratories was formed in 1933 and Land received his first of many patents for “Polarizing Refracting Bodies.” In 1932, Land presented a paper on his synthetic polarizing materials and Wheelwright convinced him to leave college before graduating to start a company together. Wheelwright III, who provided Land with a laboratory to conduct his research. There he met physics instructor George W. After a leave of absence from Harvard College in 1926 to study the development of a synthetic light-polarizing material, Land returned to Harvard in 1929 and continued his research in the Harvard Physics Department. Land’s breakthrough research on polarizers. The beginnings of the Polaroid Corporation can be traced to Edwin H. The Polaroid Corporation was an iconic, 20th century company whose pioneering achievements in optics and engineering continue to have technological, social and artistic significance. Material in this series includes trial transcripts, depositions, discovery and trial preparation, administrative material, publicity and marketing files, and information relating to Polaroid's venture into the identification badge system market. The material in this series includes the liability issue, not the issue of compensation for damages. Series IIE contains the landmark patent infringement lawsuit Polaroid vs. The bulk of subseries E contains one or two folders of material for each legal case or legal record and therefore did not warrant a separate subseries and description. The arrangement of this series was predicated by the volume of material associated with each legal trial represented. This series has been broken into six subseries with five subseries representing a single legal trial and one containing miscellaneous legal trials and legal records. Series IID contains Polaroid Corporation legal files. Mervis includes information gathered for the Polaroid patent lawsuits. Brown's papers include personal material and subject files and administrative files relating to his work at Polaroid. Both of these men were long time patent attorneys for the Polaroid Corporation. Brown and the administrative records of Stanley H. Series IIB and IIC contain the papers of Donald L. Records related to the Patent Museum are located here and augment the memos, drawings, and correspondence related to Polaroid inventions. Included in this series is research conducted by Polaroid patent attorneys to protect the company from patent infringement. This material pertains to the creative process behind Polaroid inventions and the legal steps the company took to patent inventions and products. Series IIA contains the Polaroid patent department administrative records which include bound patent volumes, administrative office and subject files, office research files, and invention files and patent applications circa 1920-1995. Mervis were kept in their original order. Personal and administrative files for long time patent attorneys Donald L. The collection was arranged this way in order to keep material relating to specific parts of the legal and patent departments together. Polaroid Corporation legal files, and Series IIE. Patent department administrative records, Series IIB. This group of material is a part of the larger Polaroid Corporation collection and is arranged in five series: Series IIA. The Polaroid Corporation legal and patent records contain a large amount of information related to the evolution of the company and the products that the company invented and marketed.
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