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What inspired inventor Edwin Land to create the instant Polaroid camera in the 1940s?

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Correct answer: His daughter asked why she couldn't see a photo

During a family vacation in 1943, Edwin Land's three-year-old daughter asked why she could not see the picture her father had just taken of her. Prompted by her curiosity, Land spent the next few hours working out the chemical and optical requirements for instant photography. Within just five years, the first commercial Polaroid Land Camera went on sale, changing snapshot culture forever. Photo: Zebrio, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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