Along with VHS and vinyl the Polaroid instant camera seemed destined for the scrap heap. With the rise of digital photography the self-developing film became irrelevant and outdated. But three years after the last Polaroid camera was made, it has been pulled from the brink of extinction.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1269699/Back-brink-extinction-The-new-Polaroid-camera-help-Lady-Gaga.html
This model is the prototype for all Polaroid Land cameras produced for the next 15 years. Photographic sales of the Land Model 95 camera exceed $5 million in the first year. film consultant, initiating a long tradition of working with and supporting photographic artists. 1950s and 1960s.
http://www.bu.edu/prc/forms/polatimeline.pdf
Fair the next year and later used by the military. 1939. Polaroid products include glasses, ski goggles, stereoscopic motion picture viewers, a redesigned desk lamp, fog-. free and dark-adapter goggles for the Army and Navy, and the company receives a contract to develop heat.
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Maybe it has more to do with the concept expressed by Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law: making technology indistinguishable from magic. By that measure, I can’t think of a greater gadget than the SX-70 Land Camera, the instant camera that Polaroid introduced in April 1972.
http://www.technologizer.com/2011/06/08/polaroid/
The SX-70’s real coming-out party took place at Polaroid’s next annual meeting, held on April 25th, 1972 at its four-acre warehouse in Needham, another Boston suburb. Land strode on stage before thousands of shareholders, Polaroid employees, reporters, and analysts.
http://www.technologizer.com/2011/06/08/polaroid/
If conception is invention, then according to the Polaroid website, the Polaroid Land Camera was invented in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1944. Edwin Land was on vacation when his… three year old daughter Jennifer asked him why she couldn't see a picture Land took of her right away.
http://www.answers.com/Q/When_did_the_dispoable_polaroid_camera_come_out
The first Land camera, the Model 95, is sold in Boston at Jordan Marsh department store on November 26 for. $89.75. This model is the prototype for all Polaroid Land cameras produced for the next 15 years. 1949. Photographic sales of the Land Model 95 camera exceed $5 million in the first year.
http://www.bu.edu/prc/forms/polatimeline.pdf
The Polaroid Corporation was co-founded in 1937 with the first instant camera launched in 1947. It became so successful that by the 1960s about half of all American households owned a Polaroid camera. Instant film had a great advantage over standard film - its pictures could be developed in three minutes.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1269699/Back-brink-extinction-The-new-Polaroid-camera-help-Lady-Gaga.html
I'm not aware of Polaroid disposables (though everyone else seems to have jumped on that bandwagon). The original Polaroid camera was placed on the market in 1948. 2 people found this useful.
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In 1972, instant photography was no longer a novelty: the world had been introduced to it in 1947 when Polaroid co-founder Edwin H. Land unveiled the Model 95, the company’s first camera.
http://www.technologizer.com/2011/06/08/polaroid/
when did the polaroid camera come out
Polaroid camera came out in 1948.  The Polaroid camera came out in 1948.